Self assembly: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:18, 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

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.

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 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]]).
+* 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.
+* [[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.