"Nanosized blocks spontaneously assemble in water to create tiny floating checkerboards." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240613140320.htm (accessed July 9, 2026).
Researchers have engineered nanosized cubes that spontaneously form a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern when dropped on the surface of water. The work, published in Nature Communications, presents ...