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Important (and maybe non-obvious) fact:<br>
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'''Self assembly is NOT synonymous to [[thermally driven assembly]]!!''' <br>
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[[Nonthermal self assembly]] is a form of selfassembly that is not thermally driven. <br>
 
'''Not all kinds of self assembly need [[diffusion transport|diffusion]] driven by [[thermal motion]] to work.'''
 
'''Not all kinds of self assembly need [[diffusion transport|diffusion]] driven by [[thermal motion]] to work.'''
  
 
There is:
 
There is:
 
* [[Thermally driven assembly]] (aka "brownian self assembly")
 
* [[Thermally driven assembly]] (aka "brownian self assembly")
* [[Non-thermal selfassembly]] driven by longer range attraction forces. <br>E.g. like how magnets can do self assembly at the macroscale
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* [[Self assembly without thermal motion]] instead driven by longer range attraction forces. <br>E.g. like how magnets at the macroscale layed out in a row can do completely predictable self assembly with just one controlled nudge.
  
== Related ==
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Self-assembly can in various ways be mixed with positional assembly. Including:
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* [[Site activating semi positional assembly]]
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* [[Tether aided thermally driven assembly]]
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== Different kinds of self assembly in the [[foldamer printer]] concept ==  
  
 
The [[foldamer printer]] concept where:  
 
The [[foldamer printer]] concept where:  
 
* [[Thermally driven assembly]] may be used to make the base [[vitamin parts]] that constitute that most basic building-blocks.
 
* [[Thermally driven assembly]] may be used to make the base [[vitamin parts]] that constitute that most basic building-blocks.
* 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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* The foldamer printer then performs some [[semi positional assembly]] of these basic building-blocks to larger composite blocks that <br>form [[hinge interlinked chains of blocks]].
* [[Non-thermal selfassembly]] may then finally may self assemble assemble the even bigger products (that would diffuse only very slowly) to even bigger structures.
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* [[Non-thermal selfassembly]] may then finally self assemble the even bigger products block chains (that would diffuse only very slowly) to even bigger structures in a non thermally driven diffusionless way.
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== Related ==
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* [[Spectrum of means of assembly]]
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* Up: [[Method of assembly]]
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* [[Bottom-up manufacturing]]
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* '''[[Thermally driven assembly]]'''
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* [[Squigglesembly]] – filling almost arbitrary volumes by tracing out a squiggly hilbert curve like path <BR> not to confuse with the squiggly line in structural DNA nanotechnology which is [[one-pot self-assembly]].
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* [[Circumsembly]] – circumnavigating irreversible errors <br> Some errors might be tolerable in the final product especially when <bR>they are internal or on a non-interface surface and not distort/disrupt the entire structure too much.
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* [[Hinged blockchain self folding]] – not thermally driven form of selfassembly
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'''Two important measures of progress:'''
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* [[Termination control]]
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* [[Stiffness]] and [[Lattice scaled stiffness]]

Latest revision as of 13:30, 11 February 2024

Self assembly is NOT synonymous to thermally driven assembly!!
Nonthermal self assembly is a form of selfassembly that is not thermally driven.
Not all kinds of self assembly need diffusion driven by thermal motion to work.

There is:

Self-assembly can in various ways be mixed with positional assembly. Including:

Different kinds of self assembly in the foldamer printer concept

The foldamer printer concept where:

Related



  • Squigglesembly – filling almost arbitrary volumes by tracing out a squiggly hilbert curve like path
    not to confuse with the squiggly line in structural DNA nanotechnology which is one-pot self-assembly.
  • Circumsembly – circumnavigating irreversible errors
    Some errors might be tolerable in the final product especially when
    they are internal or on a non-interface surface and not distort/disrupt the entire structure too much.
  • Hinged blockchain self folding – not thermally driven form of selfassembly

Two important measures of progress: