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Systems Self-Assembly: multidisciplinary snapshots
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STUDIES IN MULTIDISCIPLINARITY
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Self-Assembly processes are ubiquitous in nature. Understanding how nature produces self-assembled systems will represent an enormous leap
forward in our technological capabilities. Self-Assembly is an advantageous
fabrication process because, with an appropriate set of components and
associated interactions, these components will autonomously, robustly and efficiently assemble
into a desired system. Robustness and versatility are
some of the most important properties of self-assembling natural systems.
Although systems where self-assembly takes place, or which are created by a self-assembling process, are
remarkably varied, some common principles
for self-assembly are starting to be discerned. This book will be a
showcase of self-assembly in systems that arise from the computational, biological, chemical, physical and
engineering disciplines. The "Ariadna's Thread" throughout the book unifying the various case
studies will be the "Computational Nature of Self-Assembling Systems".
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Our book targets readers with the following background:
Computer Science, Molecular and Cell/Tissue Biology, Synthetic Chemistry, Material Sciences, Engineering and Physics
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A provisional table of contents is available here.
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