Systems self-assembly / edited by Natalio Krasnogor, Steven Gustafson, David A. Pelta, José L. Verdegay

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self-organised nanoparticle assemblies : a panoply of patterns -- Biomimetic design of dynamic self-assembling systems -- Computing by self-assembly : DNA molecules, polyominoes, cells -- Evolutionary design of a model of self-assembling chemical structures -- Self-assembly as an engineering concept across size scales -- Probabilistic analysis of self-assembled molecular networks -- The "programming language" of dynamic self-assembly -- Self-assembled computer architectures -- Simulation of self-assembly processes using abstract reduction systems -- Computer aided search for optimal self-assembly systems -- Programmable self-assembly : theoretical aspects and DNA-linked nanoparticles -- From microscopic rules to emergent cooperativity in large-scale patterns -- Automated self-assembling programming.