Compositions and methods for self-assembly of polymers with complementary macroscopic and microscopic scale units

摘要

The invention provides compositions and methods relating to self-assembly of structures of various size and shape complexity. The composition include synthetic single-stranded polymers having a backbone and pre-determined linear arrangement of monomers.

主权项

1. A synthetic, non-nucleic acid structure comprising:
a first heterogeneous plurality of non-nucleic acid monomers attached in a pre-determined manner to a first non-nucleic acid polymeric backbone; and a second heterogeneous plurality of non-nucleic acid monomers attached in a pre-determined manner to a second non-nucleic acid polymeric backbone, wherein monomers of the first plurality have complementary shapes, mirror image magnetic configurations, and opposite N/S polarity relative to monomers of the second plurality, and wherein monomers of the first plurality are bound to monomers of the second plurality through magnetic attraction and shape complementarity.