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Systems Self-Assembly: Multidisciplinary Snapshots

By Steven Gustafson , Natalio Krasnogor , David A. Pelta and Jose L. Verdegay (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
ISBN
9780444528650, 0444528652
DOI
10.1016/S1571-0831
ISSN
1571-0831
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7143765 bytes)
Series
Studies in Multidisciplinarity 5
Pages
1-310\310
Topic
Biology
Library
duansci.com
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

Self-assembly is a process that creates complex heirarchical structures through the statistical exploration of alternative configurations. These processes occur without external intervention. Self-Assembly processes are ubiquitous in nature. Understanding how nature produces self-assembled systems will represent an enormous leap forward in our technological capabilities. Robustness and versatility are some of the most important properties of self-assembling natural systems. Although systems where self-assembly occurs, or which are created by a self-assembling process, are remarkably vaired, some common principles are starting to be discerned. The unifying thread throughout the book is the "Computational Nature of Self-Assembling Systems." *The only book to showcases state-of-the-art self-assembly systems that arise from the computational, biological, chemical, physical and engineering disciplines *Coherent, integrated view of both book practice examples and new trends with a clearly presented computational flavor *Written by world experts in each area

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