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- Devoted to rapidly developing field of nano-science and nano-technology
- State-of-the-art material and comprehensive reviews
- Written by leading experts in the field of self-organization and nonlinear dynamics
- Detailed lecture notes useful for graduate students and beginning researchers
Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 218)
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Nano-science and nano-technology are rapidly developing scientific and technological areas that deal with physical, chemical and biological processes that occur on nano-meter scale – one millionth of a millimeter. Self-organization and pattern formation play crucial role on nano-scales and promise new, effective routes to control various nano-scales processes. This book contains lecture notes written by the lecturers of the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Self-Assembly, Pattern Formation and Growth Phenomena in Nano-Systems" that took place in St Etienne de Tinee, France, in the fall 2004. They give examples of self-organization phenomena on micro- and nano-scale as well as examples of the interplay between phenomena on nano- and macro-scales leading to complex behavior in various physical, chemical and biological systems. They discuss such fascinating nano-scale self-organization phenomena as self-assembly of quantum dots in thin solid films, pattern formation in liquid crystals caused by light, self-organization of micro-tubules and molecular motors, as well as basic physical and chemical phenomena that lead to self-assembly of the most important molecule on the basis of which most of living organisms are built – DNA. A review of general features of all pattern forming systems is also given. The authors of these lecture notes are the leading experts in the field of self-organization, pattern formation and nonlinear dynamics in non-equilibrium, complex systems.
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Book Title: Self-Assembly, Pattern Formation and Growth Phenomena in Nano-Systems
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in St. Etienne de Tinee, France, August 28 - September 11, 2004
Editors: Alexander A. Golovin, Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4355-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4353-6Published: 21 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8855-8Published: 21 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4355-0Published: 14 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 327
Topics: Complex Systems, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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