Dissections: self-assembled aggregates that spontaneously reconfigure their structures when their environment changes.
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.
Mao
Chengde
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Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Thalladi
Venkat R
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Wolfe
Daniel B
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Whitesides
Sue
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Whitesides
George M
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