Self-Assembly of an Operating Electrical Circuit Based on Shape Complementarity and the Hydrophobic Effect

Terfort, Andreas; Whitesides, George M.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1521-4095(199804)10:6<470::aid-adma470>3.0.co;2-1

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“…For example, optically active materials are fabricated via surface tension and complementary shape-induced self-assembly. 76,77 Therefore, fabrication of microparticles with controlled geometries and chemical properties could potentially expand the design varieties of self-assembly.…”

Section: D Clustering Of Convex-top Janus Cylinders With Hydrophobicitymentioning

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Three-dimensional clustering of Janus cylinders by convex curvature and hydrophobic interactions

Kim

Choi

et al. 2015

Soft Matter

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The three-dimensional (3D) clustering of Janus cylinders is controlled by simply tuning the cylinder geometry and hydrophobic interactions. Janus cylinders were prepared by combining two approaches: micromolding and initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD). Hydrophilic cylinders with a flat- or convex-top curvature were prepared by micromolding based on surface tension-induced flow. The iCVD process then provides a hydrophobic domain through the simple and precise deposition of a polymer film on the top surface, forming monodisperse Janus microcylinders. We use these Janus cylinders as building blocks to form 2D or 3D clusters via hydrophobic interactions in methanol. We investigate how cylinder geometry or degree of hydrophobic interaction affects the resulting cluster geometries. The convex-top Janus cylinders lead to 3D clustering through tip-to-tip interactions, and the flat-top Janus cylinders lead to 2D clustering through face-to-face attraction. The number of Janus cylinders in 3D clusters is tuned by controlling the degree of hydrophobic (or hydrophilic) interaction.

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Section: D Clustering Of Convex-top Janus Cylinders With Hydrophobicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Three-dimensional clustering of Janus cylinders by convex curvature and hydrophobic interactions

Kim

Choi

et al. 2015

Soft Matter

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“…Terfort schloss sein Chemiestudium an der Universität Göttingen mit einer Diplomarbeit unter der Anleitung von G. von Kiedrowski ab und promovierte 1994 über Liganden in der enantioselektiven Katalyse bei H. Brunner an der Universität Regensburg. Anschließend ging er als Postdoc an die Harvard University zu G. Whitesides, arbeitete dort über zwei‐ und dreidimensionale Selbstorganisation 2. 2003 habilitierte sich Terfort an der Universität Hamburg.…”

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Angewandte Chemie

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“…Self-assembly is also important in the design of self-replicating molecules 15,16 , supramolecular chemistry 17 , natural and artificial cells 11, and in molecular computation 18,19,20 . Fuelled by progress at the microscale 21,22,23 , the use of self-assembling nanostructures holds the promise of surmounting the physical limits to lithographic instruction 24,25 . Microscopic planar self-assembly of electronic components, with subsequent regular wiring completion (e.g.…”

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Evolving Inductive Generalization via Genetic Self-Assembly

Füchslin

Maeke

Tangen

et al. 2006

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Sentence: Self-assembly of genetically encoded units enables the evolution of inductive generalization in functional structures such as multiplier circuits. AbstractWe propose that genetic encoding of self-assembling components greatly enhances the evolution of complex systems and provides an efficient platform for inductive generalization, i.e. the inductive derivation of a solution to a problem with a potentially infinite number of instances from a limited set of test examples.We exemplify this in simulations by evolving scalable circuitry for several problems. One of them, digital multiplication, has been intensively studied in recent years, where hitherto the evolutionary design of only specific small multipliers was achieved. The fact that this and other problems can be solved in full generality employing self-assembly sheds light on the evolutionary role of self-assembly in biology and is of relevance for the design of complex systems in nano-and bionanotechnology.

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Self-Assembly of an Operating Electrical Circuit Based on Shape Complementarity and the Hydrophobic Effect

Cited by 54 publications

References 7 publications

Three-dimensional clustering of Janus cylinders by convex curvature and hydrophobic interactions

Three-dimensional clustering of Janus cylinders by convex curvature and hydrophobic interactions

H. tom Dieck Ehrenmitglied der GDCh / H. Schnöckel erhält Alfred‐Stock‐Gedächtnispreis / Carl‐Duisberg‐Gedächtnispreis an A. Terfort

Evolving Inductive Generalization via Genetic Self-Assembly

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