Persistence length
(wiki-TODO: Maybe add an illustation of the concept.)
Especially softer, more elastic structures that are common with early foldamer technologies such as
3D structural DNA nanotechnology tend to bend a lot.
If improperly designed then so much so that effectively zero stiffness remains (where this is not so desired).
For homogeneous straight solid rods there is math for quantifying this.
The "persistence length" as is topic of this page.
Well not the point of loss of all stiffness but the point of a certain huge amount of bending.
Still this is about how far one can go before (way) too much of stiffness is lost.
Note that even with a significant amount of bending (easily visible by human eye in microscopy images)
things like tether assisted assembly could still be viable.
Side note: For the tethers of this method zero stiffness IS desired,
but the structure around must not loose all of its structural integrity and
feature some minimum amount of stiffness.
Also very bulky structures can be made to barely flex at all
finer details then integrated form siffer technologies:
See: Foldamer technology stiffness nesting ( & Stiffness focusing)
Related
- Self-assemby & System complexity scaling of self-assembly
- 3D structural DNA nanotechnology
- Tether assisted assembly
- Foldamer printer & Robo approach
- Foldamer technology stiffness nesting & Stiffness focusing
