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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]] | ||
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== Related == | == Related == | ||
* [[Spectrum of means of assembly]] | |||
* Up: [[Method of assembly]] | * Up: [[Method of assembly]] | ||
* [[Bottom-up manufacturing]] | * [[Bottom-up manufacturing]] | ||
* [[Positional assembly]] | |||
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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]]. | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[Hinged blockchain self folding]] – not thermally driven form of selfassembly | |||
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'''Two important measures of progress:''' | |||
* [[Termination control]] | |||
* [[Stiffness]] and [[Lattice scaled stiffness]] | |||
[[category:Incremental path]] | |||
Latest revision as of 18:08, 29 March 2026
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.
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: