Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Shaping micro-clusters via inverse jamming and topographic close-packing of microbombs

  • Seunggun Yu,
  • Hyesung Cho,
  • Jun Pyo Hong,
  • Hyunchul Park,
  • Jason Christopher Jolly,
  • Hong Suk Kang,
  • Jin Hong Lee,
  • Junsoo Kim,
  • Seung Hwan Lee,
  • Albert S. Lee,
  • Soon Man Hong,
  • Cheolmin Park,
  • Shu Yang,
  • Chong Min Koo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00538-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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 transition.