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Modular robots can adapt to different tasks by assembling into various configurations. Parallely executing the self-assembly process can significantly enhance its efficiency. However, the implementation of parallel assembly presents challenges, as ...

In this paper we present a model containing modifications to the Signal-passing Tile Assembly Model (STAM), a tile-based self-assembly model whose tiles are capable of activating and deactivating glues based on the binding of other glues. These ...

Tile Automata is a recently defined model of self-assembly that borrows many concepts from cellular automata to create active self-assembling systems where changes may be occurring within an assembly without requiring attachment. This ...

We analyze the complexity of two fundamental verification problems within a generalization of the two-handed tile self-assembly model (2HAM) where initial system assemblies are not restricted to be singleton tiles, but may be larger ...

In self-assembly tasks, local interactions between robotic structure parts induce a collective behaviour that guides the robots to assume a desired shape. In this work, we propose a self-assembly strategy for building three-dimensional structures ...

One of the most fundamental and well-studied problems in Tile Self-Assembly is the Unique Assembly Verification (UAV) problem. This algorithmic problem asks whether a given tile system uniquely assembles a specific assembly. The complexity of this ...$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$$\mathcal{}{}^{\mathrm{}}$$\mathcal{}{}^{\mathrm{}}$

As manipulating the self-assembly of supramolecular and nanoscale constructs at the single-molecule level increasingly becomes the norm, new theoretical scaffolds must be erected to replace the thermodynamic and kinetics based models used to ...

The topic of computational universality and efficiency of various types of abstract machines is still subject of intensive research. Besides many crucial open theoretical problems, there are also numerous potential applications, e.g., in ...

A morphogenetic (M) system is an abstract computational model combining properties of membrane (P) systems, such as computing via abstract particles in separate compartments regulating their workflow, with algorithmic self-assembly generalizing ...

With the increased relevance of metasurface for optical applications, a fabrication method that allows for both large surface and 100 nm range dimensions at a low cost is required for their development. Due to its high throughput and ...

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• Large area self-assembled monolayer of polystyrene nanoparticles used as etching mask.

Molecular robotics is challenging, so it seems best to keep it simple. We consider an abstract molecular robotics model based on simple folding instructions that execute asynchronously. Turning Machines are a simple 1D to 2D folding model, also ...$\mathrm{}\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}\mathrm{}$$$

RNA cotranscriptional folding is the phenomenon in which an RNA transcript folds upon itself while being synthesized out of a gene. The oritatami system is a computation model of this phenomenon, which lets its sequence (transcript) of beads (...

A morphogenetic system (M system) is an abstract computational model inspired by characteristic properties of morphogenetic phenomena such as controlled growth, self-reproduction, homeostasis and self-healing in living systems. Besides selected ...

This work is devoted to the study of biomolecular films for the development of biomolecular electronics functional devices. It is shown that the properties of biomolecular films indicate the formation of spatial structures in dry films. ...

Chemical self-assembly has been considered one of the most important scientific problems in the 21st century; however, because the process of self-assembly is very complex, there is currently little mathematic theory describing it. ...

Nanostructures generated by self-assembly of peptides yield nanomaterials that have many therapeutic applications, including drug delivery and biomedical engineering, due to their low cytotoxicity and higher uptake by targeted cells owing to ...

• SAPdb maintains 1049 experimentally-validated small peptides forming nanostructures.
• It holds a total of 328 tripeptides and 701 dipeptides.
• It provides comprehensive information for each peptide.
• Key information includes ...

Traditionally, computation within self-assembly models is hard to conceal because the self-assembly process generates a crystalline assembly whose computational history is inherently part of the structure itself. With no way to remove information ...

The advances made in telecommunication technologies imply that new functional materials are developed for the components used in advanced electronics. Creating biomolecular films with certain impedance characteristics for telecommunication devices ...

We prove a Pumping Lemma for the noncooperative abstract Tile Assembly Model, a model central to the theory of algorithmic self-assembly since the beginning of the field. This theory suggests, and our result proves, that small differences in the nature ...

In this paper, we prove that in the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM), an accretion-based model which only allows for a single tile to attach to a growing assembly at each step, there are no tile assembly systems capable of self-assembling the ...