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Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages
We design and lithographically fabricate two-dimensional preassembled colloidal linkages of custom-shaped, discrete, mobile microscale tiles that are sterically coupled together by lock-and-key sub-tile features, yielding hinge-like bonds between separate tiles. These mobile colloidal linkages, whic...
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description | We design and lithographically fabricate two-dimensional preassembled colloidal linkages of custom-shaped, discrete, mobile microscale tiles that are sterically coupled together by lock-and-key sub-tile features, yielding hinge-like bonds between separate tiles. These mobile colloidal linkages, which we call polylithomers, provide top-down, preconfigured, morphologically controllable analogs of fluctuating molecular polymers. We illustrate the versatility of this approach by fabricating and studying curvilinear, branched, bridged-spiral, dendritic, and mesh-like polylithomers having controllable preassembled dimensions, topologies, configurations, intrinsic local curvatures, persistence lengths, and bond extensibilities. By advancing anisotropic particle tracking routines to handle lock-and-key tiles, we measure the dynamic conformational changes of polylithomers caused by Brownian excitations to the monomer scale, revealing markedly large bond extensibilities. Beyond modeling fluctuating semiflexible molecular polymers, polylithomers provide access to unusual polymer morphologies and bonding potentials that have not yet been synthesized through other kinds of assembly methods using either molecular or colloidal monomers. |
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spelling | pubmed-84428932021-09-24 Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages Yu, Tianren Mason, Thomas G. Sci Adv Physical and Materials Sciences We design and lithographically fabricate two-dimensional preassembled colloidal linkages of custom-shaped, discrete, mobile microscale tiles that are sterically coupled together by lock-and-key sub-tile features, yielding hinge-like bonds between separate tiles. These mobile colloidal linkages, which we call polylithomers, provide top-down, preconfigured, morphologically controllable analogs of fluctuating molecular polymers. We illustrate the versatility of this approach by fabricating and studying curvilinear, branched, bridged-spiral, dendritic, and mesh-like polylithomers having controllable preassembled dimensions, topologies, configurations, intrinsic local curvatures, persistence lengths, and bond extensibilities. By advancing anisotropic particle tracking routines to handle lock-and-key tiles, we measure the dynamic conformational changes of polylithomers caused by Brownian excitations to the monomer scale, revealing markedly large bond extensibilities. Beyond modeling fluctuating semiflexible molecular polymers, polylithomers provide access to unusual polymer morphologies and bonding potentials that have not yet been synthesized through other kinds of assembly methods using either molecular or colloidal monomers. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8442893/ /pubmed/34516922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg3678 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Physical and Materials Sciences Yu, Tianren Mason, Thomas G. Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
title | Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
title_full | Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
title_fullStr | Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
title_full_unstemmed | Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
title_short | Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
title_sort | brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages |
topic | Physical and Materials Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8442893/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34516922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg3678 |
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