Year: 2022

SELF-ASSEMBLY AND SELF-REPAIR are characteristics of living systems that robotics engineers have longed to emulate. This ability is not limited to living things, as colloids, crystals and other systems also display self-assembly driven at a nano or molecular scale by powerful thermodynamic forces seeking energetic equilibrium. View in LinkedIn

THE RACE TO CHAOS is a driver of most inert material in the universe, to a more disordered, lower energy state. Self-assembly is the drive of free molecules to a higher ordered state, a property common to all living things. For this reason, and its enormous utility, self-assembly holds a particular fascination for innovative scientists in the quest fo r autonomous self-repairing robots. View in LinkedIn

KEY PARTS. "Self-Assembly is a process by which disordered parts build an ordered structure through local interaction ... This phenomenon is scale-independent and can be utilized for self-constructing and manufacturing systems at nearly every scale. We have also identified the key ingredients for self-assembly as a simple set of responsive building blocks, energy and interactions that can be designed within nearly every material and machining process available." http://www.selfassemblylab.net/ View in LinkedIn

GIANT PROMISE OF SELF-ASSEMBLY. "Self-assembly promises to enable breakthroughs across every applications of biology, material science, software, robotics, manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure, construction, the arts, and even space exploration." http://www.selfassemblylab.net/ View in LinkedIn

#1. STATIC SELF-ASSEMBLY is one of at least four general types of self-assembly mechanisms; static systems are at equilibrium and do not release energy, such as molecular crystals and folded globular proteins. It usually requires energy input but the result is stable. https://lnkd.in/dMdgwXk View in LinkedIn

#2. DYNAMIC SELF-ASSEMBLY "dissipates energy such as found in living cells. This type of self-assembly is less understood than the static mechanism." https://lnkd.in/dMdgwXk View in LinkedIn

#3. "TEMPLATED SELF-ASSEMBLY requires component interaction with the environment to activate, for example, crystallization on surfaces." https://lnkd.in/dMdgwXk View in LinkedIn

#4. COLLOID CRYSTALLIZATION in 3D optical fields is the last type of self-assembly. Self-assembly requires that the components are mobile, and thus usually occurs in fluids or on smooth surfaces. https://lnkd.in/dMdgwXk View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLY EXAMPLES for Static, Dynamic, Templated and Biological systems, include our old friends: bubble rafts, bacterial colonies, swarms, schools of fish, weather patterns, solar systems, and even galaxies. (See Table 1). https://lnkd.in/dMdgwXk View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLY = INFORMATION CODED in the shape, surface properties, charge, polarize, magnetic dipole, mass etc. "These characteristics determine the interactions among them." The term information and the term energy are equivalent in these circumstances. https://lnkd.in/dMdgwXk View in LinkedIn