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Science 17 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5239, pp. 1157 - 1158
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5239.1157
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Perspectives

Bruce Parkinson

Solid-state chemists are exploring new routes to synthesizing useful compounds, including self-assembly, by which complex structures form spontaneously from simpler ones. Parkinson provides background and comment on a research report by Noh et al. in this issue (p. 1181) that describes a method of depositing reactants on a substrate at low temperature; once the starting materials are in place, the temperature is increased, allowing the reaction to proceed.

The author is in the Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. E-mail: parkinson@mail.chm.colostate.edu




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