Introduction. THE NATURAL WORLD: Inorganic Systems. Organic Systems. Lessons from the Natural World. ENGINEERED SYSTEMS: The Cheerios Effect and Other Simple Systems. Static Self Assembly. Dynamic Self Assembly. DNA Self Assembly. THE FUTURE: Models of Self Assembly. Directions. Color Plates. References. Appendices. Index.
University of Delaware, Newark, USA
"[The book] is really very beautiful. It is a fantastic list of
disparate topics that are all elegantly organized around the theme
of self assembly. [The author has] managed to put together a
coherent story starting with simple physical effects, such as
surface tension and bubble rafts, to organic systems like the
tobacco mosaic virus and the ribosome to the Cheerios effect (for
those of us who like breakfast cereal!). This is then elegantly
connected to George Whiteside's engineered Cheerios effect, to
magnetic self assembly and finally ending with very recent work on
DNA self assembly-including even the latest work out of Winfree's
lab! It is really terrific. I had not considered how powerful a
course about self assembly would be before I saw how [the author]
put everything together in [this] book."
-Dr. Michael P. Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics
and Applied Physics, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
"Self-assembly is an exploding field, the basis of both biological
systems and the most advanced nanotechnologies. Self Assembly
offers the reader a unique guide: it spans scales ranging from
molecular to macroscopic, levels of complexity ranging from simple
crystals to systems that compute, and modes of understanding
ranging from equations to experiments with floating soda straws.
It's the best introduction I've seen."
-Dr. K. Eric Drexler, author of Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery,
Manufacturing, and Computation
"This text of John Pelesko's is a wonderful introduction to the
emerging field of self assembly. Self assembly is an important
field to be informed about at this time, in part because it is
critical to the science and engineering of nanostructures and
nanodevices constructed on scales below the limits of conventional
top-down methodologies such as lithography. He manages superbly to
impart to the reader the excitement of the ongoing research in this
quickly evolving and highly interdisciplinary field. The text
ranges over a wide variety of topics, including the impact of self
assembly to nanoscience, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, material
science, and robotics. It covers a number of recent revolutionary
breakthroughs in self assembly, demonstrating the self assembly of
complex and richly patterned nanostructures. The text would be
essential reading to anyone in these fields, as well as to anyone
with a curiosity about the basic processes that are used by nature
to assemble the most complex things we know about in the
universe-ourselves."
-John H. Reif, A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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