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Compactness Determines the Success of Cube and Octahedron Self-Assembly 1 2 1 2,3 Anum Azam , Timothy G. Leong , Aasiyeh M. Zarafshar , David H. Gracias * 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America Abstract Nature utilizes self-assembly to fabricate structures on length scales ranging from the atomic to the macro scale. Self- assembly has emerged as a paradigm in engineering that enables the highly parallel fabrication of complex, and often three-dimensional, structures from basic building blocks. Although there have been several demonstrations of this self- assembly fabrication process, rules that govern a priori design, yield and defect tolerance remain unknown. In this paper, we have designed the first model experimental system for systematically analyzing the influence of geometry on the self- assembly of 200 and 500 mm cubes and octahedra from tethered, multi-component, two-dimensional (2D) nets. We examined the self-assembly of all eleven 2D nets that can fold into cubes and octahedra, and we observed striking correlations between the compactness of the nets and the success of the assembly. Two measures of compactness were used for the nets: the number of vertex or topological connections and the radius of gyration. The success of the self- assembly process was determined by measuring the yield a