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Summary
Hailed as one of the key areas of nanoscience likely to shape future scientific research, self-assembly offers the most promising route to true molecular nanotechnology. Focusing on this dynamic new field, Self Assembly: The Science of Things That Put Themselves Together explores nature's self-assembly of structures, the use of it to build engineered systems, and the latest advances in the field.Reflecting the inherent progress of the science of self-assembly, this definitive book first delves into natural self-assembling systems. It addresses crystal growth, soap films, and micelles; examines how nature builds viruses, proteins, and ribosomes; and introduces the protein folding problem. The author then discusses how physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers are applying nature's principles to self-assemble everything from DNA cubes to millimeter-scale electronic circuits. The final chapters cover theoretical and experimental approaches to understand the phenomenon of self-assembly and overcome its various challenges.With practical activities, profiles of leading experts, chapter highlights, exercises, and references, Self Assembly provides the most current authoritative information on this exciting branch of nanoscience.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xii |
| List of Figures | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Self-Assembly | p. 1 |
| Profile | p. 6 |
| Why Now? | p. 7 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 10 |
| Exercises | p. 11 |
| Related Reading | p. 11 |
| Notes | p. 13 |
| The Natural World | p. 15 |
| Inorganic Systems | p. 17 |
| Introduction | p. 17 |
| Bubble Rafts | p. 18 |
| A Primer on Surface Tension | p. 20 |
| The Meniscus Effect | p. 21 |
| Profile | p. 25 |
| Back to the Bubble Raft | p. 26 |
| Crystallization | p. 30 |
| Try It Yourself - The Bubble Raft | p. 32 |
| Polymerization | p. 36 |
| Micelles | p. 41 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 44 |
| Exercises | p. 45 |
| Related Reading | p. 46 |
| Notes | p. 48 |
| Organic Systems | p. 49 |
| Introduction | p. 49 |
| Proteins and Protein Folding | p. 50 |
| Understanding Protein Folding | p. 52 |
| Try It Yourself - "Protein" Folding | p. 56 |
| The Tobacco Mosaic Virus | p. 57 |
| The Ribosome | p. 60 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 62 |
| Profile | p. 63 |
| Exercises | p. 64 |
| Related Reading | p. 65 |
| Notes | p. 65 |
| Lessons from the Natural World | p. 67 |
| Introduction | p. 67 |
| The Bubble Raft and Nature's Principles | p. 68 |
| Structured Particles | p. 70 |
| Profile | p. 72 |
| Binding Forces | p. 73 |
| Environment | p. 73 |
| Driving Forces | p. 74 |
| Other Aspects of Nature's Motif | p. 75 |
| Energy Minimization | p. 75 |
| Nucleation | p. 77 |
| Templates | p. 78 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 78 |
| Exercises | p. 79 |
| Notes | p. 80 |
| Engineered Systems | p. 81 |
| The "Cheerios Effect" and Other Simple Systems | p. 83 |
| Introduction | p. 83 |
| The Penrose Model | p. 84 |
| Nature's Principles in Action | p. 86 |
| Magnetic Self-Assembling Systems | p. 87 |
| Pattern Formation in Magnetic Spheres | p. 90 |
| Control Via External Fields | p. 94 |
| Nano-Magnets | p. 98 |
| Magnetic Origami | p. 100 |
| Measuring Complexity | p. 101 |
| The "Cheerios Effect" | p. 103 |
| The Force Between Two Plates | p. 104 |
| Floating Particles and Other Forces | p. 106 |
| Try It Yourself - Self Assembling Soda Straws | p. 109 |
| Profile | p. 111 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 112 |
| Exercises | p. 112 |
| Related Reading | p. 114 |
| Notes | p. 115 |
| Static Self-Assembly | p. 117 |
| Introduction | p. 117 |
| Assembly via Capillary Forces | p. 119 |
| Assembly at a Liquid-Liquid Interface | p. 121 |
| Profile | p. 123 |
| Capillary Forces and Three Dimensional Structures | p. 124 |
| Reconfigurable Capillary Driven Systems | p. 128 |
| Computing with Capillary Forces | p. 129 |
| Template Driven Self-Assembly | p. 132 |
| Artificial Amphiphiles | p. 133 |
| Structured Surfaces | p. 134 |
| Assembly by Folding | p. 139 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 143 |
| Exercises | p. 144 |
| Related Reading | p. 145 |
| Notes | p. 146 |
| Dynamic Self-Assembly | p. 147 |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| A Prototype for Dynamic Self-Assembly | p. 149 |
| Try It Yourself - Electrostatic Self-Assembly | p. 154 |
| Self-Assembling Nanowires | p. 156 |
| Electrostatically Driven Granular Media | p. 161 |
| Electrorheological Fluids | p. 163 |
| Magnetically Driven Dynamic Systems | p. 164 |
| Mechanically Driven Dynamic Systems | p. 167 |
| Self-Propelled Systems | p. 170 |
| Smart Particles | p. 171 |
| Profile | p. 174 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 176 |
| Exercises | p. 177 |
| Related Reading | p. 179 |
| Notes | p. 180 |
| DNA Self-Assembly | p. 181 |
| Introduction | p. 181 |
| DNA - Nature's Ultimate Building Block | p. 182 |
| Sticky Ends and Branches | p. 184 |
| Cubes and other Polyhedra | p. 187 |
| DNA Tiles | p. 191 |
| DNA Barcodes | p. 196 |
| DNA Origami | p. 198 |
| DNA as a Template | p. 199 |
| Profile | p. 201 |
| DNA Self-Assembly in Context | p. 202 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 204 |
| Exercises | p. 205 |
| Related Reading | p. 206 |
| Notes | p. 207 |
| The Future | p. 209 |
| Models of Self-Assembly | p. 211 |
| Introduction | p. 211 |
| Physical Models | p. 213 |
| Modelling Structured Surfaces | p. 214 |
| Modelling Helix Formation | p. 218 |
| Chemical Kinetics Models | p. 223 |
| The Waterbug Model | p. 225 |
| Abstract Models | p. 230 |
| Conformational Switching | p. 230 |
| Graph Grammars | p. 237 |
| The Tile Assembly Model | p. 240 |
| Profile | p. 242 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 247 |
| Exercises | p. 248 |
| Related Reading | p. 250 |
| Notes | p. 251 |
| Directions | p. 253 |
| Introduction | p. 253 |
| Fibonacci at the Nanoscale | p. 254 |
| Self-Assembly Springs Into Action | p. 256 |
| Self-Assembled Swimming Cells | p. 257 |
| Profile | p. 259 |
| Self-Assembly Goes Broadway | p. 260 |
| Self-Assembly and the Origin of Life | p. 261 |
| Chapter Highlights | p. 262 |
| Exercises | p. 262 |
| Related Reading | p. 263 |
| Notes | p. 264 |
| Color Plates | p. 265 |
| References | p. 281 |
| The Calculus of Variations | p. 293 |
| Useful Web Sites | p. 297 |
| Glossary | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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