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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044902
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The study focused on the two-dimensional self-assembly of disks by predicting patterns for different types of disks, boundary shapes, and numbers of disks. Experimental validation of the model showed that solutions are not always unique and depend on initial positions. Emerging patterns were classified into mono-stable and multi-stable patterns.
Self-assembled granular materials can be utilized in many applications such as shock absorption and energy harvesting. Such materials are inherently discrete with an easy path to tunability through external applied forces such as stress or by adding more elements to the system. However, the self-assembly process is statistical in nature with no guarantee for repeatability, stability, or order of emergent final assemblies. Here we study both numerically and experimentally the two-dimensional self-assembly of free-floating disks with repulsive magnetic potentials confined to a boundary with embedded permanent magnets. Six different types of disks and seven boundary shapes are considered. An agent-based model is developed to predict the self-assembled patterns for any given disk type, boundary, and number of disks. The validity of the model is experimentally verified. While the model converges to a physical solution, these solutions are not always unique and depend on the initial position of the disks. The emerging patterns are classified into monostable patterns (i.e., stable patterns that emerge regardless of the initial conditions) and multistable patterns. We also characterize the emergent order and crystallinity of the emerging patterns. The developed model along with the self-assembly nature of the can be in re materials with nonlinear
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