Shaping micro-clusters via inverse jamming and topographic close-packing of microbombs
Self-assembled systems are normally composed of incompressible building blocks, which constrain their space filling efficiency. Yu et al. show programmable, densely packed clusters using thermally expandable soft microparticles, whereby the self-assembling process is realized via a jamming transitio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-09-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00538-z |