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This work presents a construction method for interlocking assemblies based on planar crystallographic symmetries. Planar crystallographic groups, also known as wallpaper groups, correspond to tessellations of the plane with a tile, called a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Tom Goertzen

We study DNA self-assembly and DNA computation using a coarse-grained DNA model within the directional dynamic bonding framework {[}C. Svaneborg, Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1793 (2012){]}. In our model, a single nucleotide or domain is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-13 Carsten Svaneborg , Harold Fellermann , Steen Rasmussen

We present a theoretical discussion of a self-assembly scheme which makes it possible to use DNA to uniquely encode the composition and structure of micro- and nanoparticle clusters. These anisotropic DNA-decorated clusters can be further…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicholas A. Licata , Alexei V. Tkachenko

Self-assembly processes provide the means to achieve scalable and versatile metamaterials by "bottom-up" fabrication. Despite their enormous potential, especially as a platform for energy materials, self-assembled metamaterials are often…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Jelena Wohlwend , Georg Haberfehlner , Henning Galinski

Transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq reads is an active area of bioinformatics research. The ever-declining cost and the increasing depth of RNA-Seq have provided unprecedented opportunities to better identify expressed transcripts. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Tin Chi Nguyen , Zhiyu Zhao , Dongxiao Zhu

We formulate statistical-mechanical inverse methods in order to determine optimized interparticle interactions that spontaneously produce target many-particle configurations. Motivated by advances that give experimentalists greater and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikael C. Rechtsman , Salvatore Torquato , Frank H. Stillinger

Self-assembly in natural and synthetic molecular systems can create complex aggregates or materials whose properties and functionality rises from their internal structure and molecular arrangement. The key microscopic features that control…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-03 Alberto Scacchi , Maria Sammalkorpi , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Linear recurrent models offer linear-time sequence processing but often suffer from suboptimal long-range memory. We trace this to the decay spectrum: for $N$ channels, random initialization collapses the minimum spectral gap to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yang Cao

We present a new simulation scheme which allows an efficient sampling of reconfigurable supramolecular structures made of polymeric constructs functionalized by reactive binding sites. The algorithm is based on the configurational bias…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Robin De Gernier , Tine Curk , Galina V. Dubacheva , Ralf P. Richter , Bortolo M. Mognetti

Self-assembly in the laboratory can now yield `information-rich' nanostructures in which each component is of a distinct type and has a defined spatial position. Ensuring the thermodynamic stability of such structures requires…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Stephen Whitelam

Optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction has been a problem of interest in recent years. By exploiting the exceptional generative power of the recently proposed diffusion models we consider a scheme which is based on a conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Martin G. Gonzalez , Matias Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega

In this paper we investigate the computational power of the polygonal tile assembly model (polygonal TAM) at temperature 1, i.e. in non-cooperative systems. The polygonal TAM is an extension of Winfree's abstract tile assembly model (aTAM)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Oscar Gilbert , Jacob Hendricks , Matthew J. Patitz , Trent A. Rogers

We present a modular DNA origami design approach to address the challenges of assembling geometrically complex nanoscale structures, including those with nonuniform Gaussian curvature. This approach features a core structure that completely…

We investigate general properties of non-deterministic self-assembly with asymmetric interactions, using a computational model and DNA tile assembly experiments. By contrasting symmetric and asymmetric interactions we show that the latter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Tesoro , K. Göpfrich , T. Kartanas , U. F. Keyser , S. E. Ahnert

Sequential processes in real-world often carry a combination of simple subsystems that interact with each other in certain forms. Learning such a modular structure can often improve the robustness against environmental changes. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ziyu Wang , Wenhao Jiang , Zixuan Zhang , Wei Tang , Junchi Yan

The molecular self-assembly of various structures such as micelles and vesicles has been the subject of comprehensive studies. Recently, a new approach to design these structures, the frame-guided assembly, has been developed to progress…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Simon Raschke , Andreas Heuer

We present SeamlessGAN, a method capable of automatically generating tileable texture maps from a single input exemplar. In contrast to most existing methods, focused solely on solving the synthesis problem, our work tackles both problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Elena Garces

Most existing 3D assembly methods treat the problem as pure pose estimation, rearranging observed parts via rigid transformations. In contrast, human assembly naturally couples structural reasoning with holistic shape inference. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zeyu Jiang , Sihang Li , Siqi Tan , Chenyang Xu , Juexiao Zhang , Julia Galway-Witham , Xue Wang , Scott A. Williams , Radu Iovita , Chen Feng , Jing Zhang

This study presents a theoretical model for a self-replicating mechanical system inspired by biological processes within living cells and supported by computer simulations. The model decomposes self-replication into core components, each of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-18 Ralph P. Lano

Biological patterns generated during development and regeneration often scale with organism size. Some organisms, e.g., flatworms, can regenerate a rescaled body plan from tissue fragments of varying sizes. Inspired by these examples, we…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-15 Steffen Werner , Tom Stückemann , Manuel Beirán Amigo , Jochen C. Rink , Frank Jülicher , Benjamin M. Friedrich