Laboratory for Nanoscale Self-Assembly

Group Publications

  • Aaron D. Sterling, A Limit to the Power of Multiple Nucleation in Self-Assembly, to appear in the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing September 22-24, 2008. Checkerboard pattern tile simulator
  • Matthew J. Patitz and Scott M. Summers, Self-Assembly of Decidable Sets (extended abstract), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Unconventional Computation (Vienna, Austria, August 25-28, 2008). Springer-Verlag, 2008, to appear. For software that programmatically generates tile sets which weakly self-assemble the canonical two-dimensional representation of decidable languages and their complements, see the DeciderTiler on the LNSA Lab Software page.
  • Matthew J. Patitz and Scott M. Summers, Self-Assembly of Discrete Self-Similar Fractals (extended abstract), Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Meeting on DNA Computing (Prague, Czech Republic, June 2-6, 2008). Springer- Verlag, 2008, to appear. An expanded version which includes proofs can be found here or at CoRR here. For supplementary information including software that programmatically generates tile sets for fibered fractal assemblies (along with the source code) and images, please see the FiberedFractalTiler on the Software page.
  • James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, and Scott M. Summers, Computability and complexity in self-assembly, Logic and Theory of Algorithms: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Computability in Europe (Athens, Greece, June 15-20, 2008), to appear.
  • James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, and Scott M. Summers, Strict self-assembly of discrete Sierpinski triangles, Computation and Logic in the Real World: Proceedings of the Third Conference on Computability in Europe (Siena, Italy, June 18-23, 2007), Springer, 2007, pp. 455-464.
  • Dave Doty, Xiaoyang Gu, Jack H. Lutz, Elvira Mayordomo, and Philippe Moser, Zeta-dimension, Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Gdansk, Poland, August 29 - September 2, 2005), Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 283-294.