Novel Multi Agent Models for Chemical Self-assembly
Abstract
The chemical self-assembly has been considered as one of most important scientific problems in the 21th Century; however, since the process of self-assembly is very complex, there is few mathematic theory for it currently. This paper provides a novel multi-agent model for chemical self-assembly, where the interaction between agents adopts the classic Lennard-Jones potential. Under this model, we propose an optimal problem by taking the temperature as the control input, and choosing the internal energy as the optimal object. A numerical solution for our optimal problem is also developed. Simulations show that our control scheme can improve the product of self-assembly. Further more, we give a strict analysis for the self-assembly model without noise, which corresponds to an attraction-repulsion multi-agent system, and prove it converges to a stable configuration eventually.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.10819,
title = {Novel Multi Agent Models for Chemical Self-assembly},
author = {Zheng Ning and Ge Chen and Francesco Bullo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10819},
year = {2018}
}