Fig. 6.

Short-time kinetics of the icosahedron assembly for different numbers of species and colors. The main plot shows the time evolution of the fraction of monomers, P₁(t), for short times using different designs with multiple species and colors. The lines are fits using P₁(t)=1/(1 + Kρt), with K as a fitting parameter and ρ = 0.1, for the short time scale of the kinetics (the fit is constrained to the range where P₁ is higher than 80%). The inset shows the aggregation rate as a function of the number of colors for two different densities, ρ = 0.1 and ρ = 0.001. We also show a theoretical line given by K = 8πD(σ + δ)χ²𝒞, with D = 0.1. All results were calculated using T = 0.097 and averaged over five independent samples.