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| − | + | '''Self assembly is NOT synonymous to [[thermally driven assembly]]!!''' <br> | |
| + | [[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.''' | ||
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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. | * [[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. | ||
| − | Self-assembly can | + | Self-assembly can in various ways be mixed with positional assembly. Including: |
* [[Site activating semi positional assembly]] | * [[Site activating semi positional assembly]] | ||
* [[Tether aided thermally driven assembly]] | * [[Tether aided thermally driven assembly]] | ||
Revision as of 19:10, 14 April 2021
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:
- Thermally driven assembly (aka "brownian self assembly")
- Self assembly without thermal motion instead driven by longer range attraction forces.
E.g. like how magnets at the macroscale layed out in a row can do completely predictable self assembly with just one controlled nudge.
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:
- 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 that
form hinge interlinked chains of blocks. - 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.
