ABSTRACT
We showed that once the system approaches such length-scales, fundamental thermodynamic quantities such as temperature, pressure, free energy, chemical potential, and surface tension become indefinable, and therefore new physics, chemistry, and materials science are needed to enable describing the new system behavior. The nanometer gains its magic power from the fact that it is the distance over which atoms and molecules on our planet can correlate together via a number of energetic interactions forcing the system to enter the nanodomain. Once in the nanodomain, a material system’s behavior becomes dominated by quantum effects, thermal fluctuations, and entropic effects. With so many potentials for nanoscale science and engineering, it will definitely impact the future trajectory and behavior of human society. We started to appreciate the potential of directed assembly on nanosystems. We have shown how the shape of solvent molecules would direct fullerene molecules to assemble themselves into zero-, one-, or two-dimensional shapes.
