Wiktionary
a. That self-assembles n. The art or practice of self-assembly
Usage examples of "self-assembling".
He was fascinated by Pierre's self-assembling nano-synthesizers, and was certain that therein lay the means to make Gilder finally crack.
What practical difference does it make to the daily routine and budget of the typical workaday scientist, after all, if the code that directs the formation and behavior of the self-assembling cat wrote itself out of random processes or was somehow inspired by a Cosmic Programmer, or if the universe really did dance out of the head of a pin?
For now we're implying a genome that consists not only of all the directions for constructing and operating the self-assembling horse, but also all the variations that can be called up according to circumstances, along with all the reference information to interpret the environmental cues and alter the production specification accordingly.
But it seems to me that anyone capable of getting self-assembling protein systems to do the work would find better things to do than spend their existence bolting things together in factories.
The self-assembling tent popped right up, though staking it down reminded him of Odysseus' struggle to subdue the shape-changer Proteus.
The bugs are just self-assembling and self-propelled packaging around the microbe suite.