Designed to yield

Colloidal self-assembly

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Maximum yield of self-assembly for a target structure can be attained with simple rules for the interactions between the structure's building blocks.

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Frenkel, D., Wales, D. Designed to yield. Nature Mater 10, 410–411 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3037