Table of contents

Table of content of thesis

Background

• The literature review section of my rapport d'avancement covers about 60% of work that I will cover in my doctoral thesis

Theoretical treatment of incompatible substructure problem

• SWARM2015 conference paper presents initial findings of yield predictions [published]
• Extended yield predictions journal paper [not yet published]

Approaches to solve the incompatible substructure problem

Self-assembly

• TODO: Tune the magnetism of the components such that the fully formed target structures are stable, but substructures are susceptible to breakage

Changing geometry

• [Published: PPSN]

Conformational switching

• TODO: Close to final design of components

Use of high inertia components

• Successfully conducted preliminary experiments
• TODO: Define experiment and collect data
• Massimo suggested, and I agree, that I write an "approaches to the yield predictions" paper. In that paper, I would include the aforementioned approaches. [not yet published]

Dipole codes

• [Published: Theoretical Computer Science]

Dynamics of aggregating / self-assembling systems

• Nicolas has developed visual tracking system and used it to find:
  • Time evolution of aggregation
  • Distance distribution
  • Velocity distribution
• Collaboration with Korean Institute of Science and Technology [Leon Abelmann, Tijmen Hageman, etc.]
  • Found the different energy regimes for our aggregating system
  • Established that outside the ballistic regime, the components perform "random walk"
    • The data neatly fits into a Rayleigh distribution
• TODO: Get new camera, re-analyse data
• TODO: Write paper

Conclusions

• Contribution 1: