Programming interactions in magnetic handshake materials. Issue 34 (18th August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Du, Chrisy Xiyu; Zhang, Hanyu Alice; Pearson, Tanner G.; Ng, Jakin; McEuen, Paul L.; Cohen, Itai; Brenner, Michael P.
• Is Part Of: Soft matter. Volume 18:Issue 34(2022)
• Page Start: 6404
• Page End: 6410
• Publication Date: 2022-08-18
• Subjects: Soft condensed matter -- Periodicals; 530.413
• DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00604a
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-683X

Abstract

Abstract : We present design rules for programming interactions using Magnetic Handshake Materials, a scale-invariant materials platform with magnetic information encoding. Abstract : The ability to rapidly manufacture building blocks with specific binding interactions is a key aspect of programmable assembly. Recent developments in DNA nanotechnology and colloidal particle synthesis have significantly advanced our ability to create particle sets with programmable interactions, based on DNA or shape complementarity. The increasing miniaturization underlying magnetic storage offers a new path for engineering programmable components for self assembly, by printing magnetic dipole patterns on substrates using nanotechnology. How to efficiently design dipole patterns for programmable assembly remains an open question as the design space is combinatorially large. Here, we present design rules for programming these magnetic interactions. By optimizing the structure of the dipole pattern, we demonstrate that the number of independent building blocks scales super linearly with the number of printed domains. We test these design rules using computational simulations of self assembled blocks, and experimental realizations of the blocks at the mm scale, demonstrating that the designed blocks give high yield assembly. In addition, our design rules indicate that with current printing technology, micron sized magnetic panels could easily achieve hundreds of different building blocks.