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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 112, Issue 1, Pages 54-59Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413941112
Keywords
programmed assembly; stored structures; complex materials
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- George F. Carrier Fellowship
- National Science Foundation through the Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR-0820484]
- Division of Mathematical Sciences [DMS-1411694]
- Foundational Questions in Evolutionary Biology Fund [RFP-12-04]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences [1411694] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Self-assembly materials are traditionally designed so that molecular or mesoscale components form a single kind of large structure. Here, we propose a scheme to create multifarious assembly mixtures, which self-assemble many different large structures from a set of shared components. We show that the number of multifarious structures stored in the solution of components increases rapidly with the number of different types of components. However, each stored structure can be retrieved by tuning only a few parameters, the number of which is only weakly dependent on the size of the assembled structure. Implications for artificial and biological self-assembly are discussed.
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