Membranes and Nanotubes: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter UPIM

We demonstrate how combinatory molecular computation allows parallel selfassembly of several kinds of nanomembranes and nanotubes. One such nanomembrane is a square grid constructed of cross-linked horizontal and vertical chains. We show that a relatively minor change causes it to self-assemble into a nanotube with the same cross-linked structure. A second nanomembrane is a monolayer arranged in a hexagonal grid. 1 Cross-linked Membranes 1.1 General Grid Construction Our goal is to construct a nanomembrane structured as a cross-linked grid, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. One row of the grid is constructed by (Eq. 73 [Mac02a]): (1) This research is supported by Nanoscale Exploratory Research grant CCR-0210094 from the National Science Foundation. It has been facilitated by a grant from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center for Information Technology Research. This report may be used for any non-profit purpose provided that the source is credited.