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Short, dated digests of frontier papers and preprints related to self-assembly education. Digests highlight lab-scale progress, not finished products.
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Digests
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | Chirality inversion in spinning living algae + Self-assembled hBN wrinkle nanochannels + Early pathway selection in protein self-assembly |
| 2026-10-30 | CurveQuad self-folding origami robot + Reversibly functionalized self-assembled platelets + DNA origami nanoparticle-on-mirror arrays |
| 2026-10-29 | Learning nanoparticle self-assembly dynamics from microscopy + Reconfigurable DNA-surfactant coatings + Predictable lanthanide polyhedra |
| 2026-10-28 | No friction required: self-locking curved filaments + Biological curves to soft modular robots + Phase separation of active and passive particles |
| 2026-10-27 | Distributed Predictive Flocking for Vibration-Driven Rob… + Inverse origami inspired by insect morphogenesis + Interfacial bacteria-driven rotation of active droplets |
| 2026-10-26 | Distributed Swarm Morphogenesis with Neural Cellular Aut… + Robotic Budding: physical self-reproduction in modular r… + Emergent Cooperative Thermoregulation in Lunar Swarm Rob… |
| 2026-10-23 | Modular swarm control + shape-switching DNA origami device + microgravity nanocoatings |
| 2026-10-22 | Spatial Control of Compressible Active Fluids + Self-Assembly of DNA Nanodonuts via Selective Insertio… + Clutter Noise Induced Phase Segregation in Binary Activ… |
| 2026-10-21 | Programmable Nonlinear Rotation of Acoustically Levitat… + Emergent Non-Reciprocal Pair Interactions in Catalytica… + Intrinsic Curvature Controls Spontaneous Entanglement of… |
| 2026-10-20 | Twitching Fiberboids in the Collective: A Table-Top, One-… + Emergent Chirality Reversal in Magnetically Driven Rotor… + Programming Symmetry in Colloidal Crystal Engineering wit… |
| 2026-10-19 | Cell Size Heterogeneity Controls Crystallization of the… + Anti-Synchronized Collective Rotation in Magnetic Colloi… + Therapeutic-Scale CAR-NK Microrobots with Programmable S… |
| 2026-10-16 | Drying-Induced Size Segregation and Stratification in Co… + Self-Organization of Invasive Breast Cancer Driven by Act… + Vision-Guided Closed-Loop Autonomous Navigation of Light… |
| 2026-10-15 | Wave Coarsening Drives Time Crystallization in Mechatronic… + Why Shaking Faster Does Not Untangle + Self-Organization and Collective Migration of Active Cond… |
| 2026-10-14 | Rheology and Programmable Gelation of DNA Tadpoles + Partitioning the Magnetization Raises the Stability L… + Ionic Strength Controls Transition Across Distinct State… |
| 2026-10-13 | Morphogenesis of a Stratified Cell Mound at a Vortex Def… + Bioinspired Soft Modular Robotic Cubes as Building Block… + Hierarchical Sequence Control Enables Assembly of a Tripl… |
| 2026-10-12 | Freezing-Induced Solid–Liquid Microphase Separation for S… + Arrested Phase Separation and Amorphous Patterns in Charg… + Self-Buoyant Cell-Spheroid Culture Programming Multi-Sphe… |
| 2026-10-09 | Minimal-Actuation Feather Star–Inspired Soft Swimmers for… + Magnetorheological Elastomers for Soft Robotics + Autonomous Thermodynamic Cycles via Robotic Mobility and… |
| 2026-10-08 | The Soft Circuits Toolkit: Teaching Mechano-Fluidic Logic… + Toward Mechanical Intelligence in Robotics + Self-organization in Chiral Gliding Filaments |
| 2026-10-07 | Towards decentralized formation of minimum-length communi… + Networks of triblock ellipses: from kagome order to disor… + Design principles for programmable topological soft networks |
| 2026-10-06 | Thermally programmed disassembly and reconstruction of 2D… + Self-assembly Monte Carlo reveals localized entanglement… + Activated coarsening of motility-induced phase separation… |
| 2026-10-05 | Engineering conditional peptide self-assembly using Alpha… + Migrating cell clusters as active droplets with asymmetri… + Decentralized power-optimal coordination for spacecraft s… |
| 2026-10-02 | Inclined surfaces bias bacterial swarming expansion and e… + Ideal gas of active particles in a box + SupraTITO: generative MD for peptide self-assembly |
| 2026-10-01 | Active spinners drive passive matter into chiral rotors + Fully developed active turbulence defined through a noneq… + A Reynolds-like criterion for the onset of universal acti… |
| 2026-09-30 | Emergent activity powers a path to chaos for acoustically… + Rectification of plasma-powered active matter into macros… + Bioinspired magnetothermally triggered capsule for rapid… |
| 2026-09-29 | Active matter within flexible boundaries: T. aceti nematodes + Quorum sensing with density-enhanced motility and size re… + Active 3D weaves for load-bearing and damage-resilient lo… |
| 2026-09-28 | Collective order reorganizes dissipation and powers an ac… + Shear stress during self-assembly encodes stiffness of ne… + Shape enantiomerism in semi-rigid polymer liquid crystals |
| 2026-09-25 | Orientational Ordering of Janus Particle Arrays as Classi… + Speed up of passive tracers in mixtures with active chemi… + Reprogrammable origami through bistable buckled hinges |
| 2026-09-24 | Spatially Resolved Nucleated Polymerization: A Free-Bound… + Uphill and downhill first passage of an active Brownian p… + Insight into ordering at nematic twist-bend interfaces |
| 2026-09-23 | Self-limited stacking of non-Euclidean colloidal shells:… + Dense packing of tetrahedra in cylinders + Statistical signatures of microorganism motility under en… |
| 2026-09-22 | Phase-diagram droplet propulsion + active SGR + inertial rotors + chiral vesicles |
| 2026-09-21 | Active colloidal raft strokes + pySNAP dynamic bonds + droplet/obstacle active matter |
| 2026-09-18 | Active Model H⁻ filaments + dsRNA bricks + vibrobot embracement + linkage compliance |
| 2026-09-17 | Nature VLP assembly watch + DNA nanostars + hard/soft self-organisation |
| 2026-09-16 | Recent arXiv intake (colloids, foldamers, multi-robot build, nano ML) |
| 2026-09-15 | Initial corpus digest (from latest-finds.md) |
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Even the newest papers mostly demonstrate lab-scale capabilities. Macroscopic programmable matter, clinical molecular robots, and cheap classroom DNA origami remain limited.
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