Difference between revisions of "Self assembly"
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Revision as of 12:17, 28 March 2021
Important (and maybe non-obvious) fact:
Not all kinds of self assembly need diffusion driven by thermal motion to work.
There is:
- Thermally driven assembly (aka "brownian self assembly")
- Non-thermal selfassembly driven by longer range attraction forces.
E.g. like how magnets can do self assembly at the macroscale
Related
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 (or 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.
