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* [[Thermally driven assembly]] (aka "brownian self assembly") | * [[Thermally driven assembly]] (aka "brownian self assembly") | ||
* [[ | * [[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 be mixed with in various ways with positional assembly. Including: | Self-assembly can be mixed with in various ways with positional assembly. Including: | ||
Revision as of 09:54, 29 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")
- 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 be mixed with in various ways 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.