Graduation Year
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Mathematics and Statistics
Major Professor
Natasha Jonoska, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Brendan Nagle, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Stephen Suen, Ph.D.
Keywords
active assembly, DNA tiling, hierarchical assembly, self assembly, substitution tiling
Abstract
The natural capacity of DNA for molecular self-assembly has already been exploited to create DNA based tiles which can self-assemble into nano-scale arrays and carry out nano-scale computation. Thus far, however, all such self-assembly has been passive, in the sense that the binding capacities of a tile are never altered throughout the assembly. The idea of active tiles, tiles that can send signals to each other and activate latent binding sites, has been proposed but never incorporated into a formal model. Here, I present an extension of the existent abstract tile assembly model by defining an active tile assembly and give a detailed example of an aperiodic set of active tiles which hierarchically produces a self-similar L-shape tiling. This yields a technique utilizing active tiles for the assembly of aperiodic self-similar shapes.
Scholar Commons Citation
Karpenko, Daria, "Self-assembly of Self-similar Structures by Active Tiles" (2012). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/4095
