title: Dissections: self-assembled aggregates that spontaneously reconfigure their structures when their environment changes.
abstract: This Communication describes a new strategy for the design of adaptive structures based on reconfigurable mesoscale self-assembly. Several sets of millimeter-scale objects have been designed that can self-assemble into two different, regular aggregates at the interface between an aqueous solution and perfluorodecalin; the choice between the two aggregates is determined by the density of the aqueous phase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Chengde
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Venkat R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Thalladi
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Wolfe
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Whitesides
authors.forename: George M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Whitesides