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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Protein Pept Lett. 2019 Sep 10;3(10):567–588. doi: 10.1038/s41570-019-0129-8

Fig. 1. Classical and hierarchically oriented organization self-assembly mechanism.

Fig. 1

Schematic comparison between the traditional crystallization growth mechanism and the proposed hierarchically oriented organization mechanism.

The former mechanism is based on the diffusion-controlled Ostwald ripening by which components of the discontinuous phase diffuse from smaller to larger through the continuous phase, whereas the latter is a growth process based on the entropic ordering of the primary nanostructures, such as primary fibres and other nanostructures.