Hierarchical selfassembly

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Hierarchical selfassembly (also convergent selfassembly) is the case when
structures get self-assembled from parts that themselves where previously self-assembled.
This implies that hierarchical selfassembly is a subform of iterative self-assembly.
(iterative self-assembly also covers repeated additions of parts of the same size.)

Note that hierarchical selfassembly is not exclusive to thermally driven self-assembly only.
Hierarchical selfassembly is also applicable to:

• non thermally driven self assembly
• positional assembly (See: hierarchical positional assembly).

Related

• self-assembly
• convergent assembly
• complementary is: hierarchical positional assembly
• iterative self-assembly