Difference between revisions of "Self assembly"

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#REDIRECT [[Thermally driven assembly]]
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Important fact: Not all kinds of self assembly need diffusion driven by thermal motion to work.
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There is:
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* [[Thermally driven assembly]] (aka "brownian self assembly")
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* Longer range attraction force driven [[non-thermal selfassembly]] e.g. like how magnets can do self assembly at the macroscale
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== Related ==
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The [[foldamer printer]] concept where:
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* [[Thermally driven assembly]] may be used to make the base [[vitamin parts]] that constitute that most basic building-blocks.
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* The foldamer printer then performs some [[semi positional assembly]] of these basic building-blocks to larger composite blocks (or [[chains of blocks]]).
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* [[Non-thermal selfassembly]] may then finally may self assemble assemble the even bigger products (that would diffuse only very slowly) to even bigger structures.

Revision as of 11:12, 28 March 2021

Important fact: Not all kinds of self assembly need diffusion driven by thermal motion to work.

There is:

Related

The foldamer printer concept where: