Self Cleanable Tile Grout

Self-healing Tile Sets

Molecular self-assembly appears to be a promising route to bottom-up fabrication of complex objects. Two major obstacles are how to create structures with more interesting organization than periodic or finite arrays, and how to reduce the fraction of side products and erroneous assemblies. Algorithmic self-assembly provides a theoretical model for investigating these questions: the growth of ar...

A Two-Stage Ceramic Tile Grout Sealing Process Using A High Power Diode Laser Part I: Grout Development And Materials Characteristics

Triangular and Hexagonal Tile Self-Assembly Systems Triangular and Hexagonal Tile Self-Assembly Systems

We discuss theoretical aspects of the self-assembly of triangular tiles, in particular, right triangular tiles and equilateral triangular tiles, and the self-assembly of hexagonal tiles. Contrary to intuition, we show that triangular tile assembly systems and square tile assembly systems cannot be simulated by each other in a non-trivial way. More precisely, there exists a square tile assembly ...

Thermodynamically Favorable Computation via Tile Self-assembly

The recently introduced Thermodynamic Binding Networks (TBN) model was developed with the purpose of studying self-assembling systems by focusing on their thermodynamically favorable final states, and ignoring the kinetic pathways through which they evolve. The model was intentionally developed to abstract away not only the notion of time, but also the constraints of geometry. Collections of mo...

Thermodynamic simulations of DNA tile self-assembly

ABSTRACT Self-assembling DNA complexes have been intensively studied in recent years aiming to achieve bottom-up construction of nanoscale objects. Among them, a DNA complex called DNA tile is known for its high programmability. By using a set of DNA tiles, we are able to self-assemble twodimensional crystals with programmable patterns. This is called algorithmic self-assembly. In order to crea...