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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 109, 期 26, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.265506
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02- 05CH11231]
- Johns Hopkins
- Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2, a U.S. D.O.E. Energy Frontier Research Center [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
Theories of phase change and self-assembly often invoke the idea of a quasiequilibrium, a regime in which the nonequilibrium association of building blocks results nonetheless in a structure whose properties are determined solely by an underlying free energy landscape. Here we study a prototypical example of multicomponent self-assembly, a one-dimensional fiber grown from red and blue blocks. We find that if the equilibrium structure possesses compositional correlations different from those characteristic of random mixing, then it cannot be generated without error at any finite growth rate: there is no quasiequilibrium regime. However, by exploiting dynamic scaling, structures characteristic of equilibrium at one point in phase space can be generated, without error, arbitrarily far from equilibrium. Our results, supported by mean-field theory in higher dimensions, thus suggest a nonperturbative strategy for multicomponent self-assembly in which the target structure is, by design, not the equilibrium one. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.265506
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