Golovin A.A., Nepomnyashchy A.A. (Eds.) Self-Assembly, Pattern Formation and Growth Phenomena in Nano-Systems

Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2006. – 341 p. – ISBN: 1402043538, 940078855X, 1402043546Nano-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.General Aspects of Pattern Formation
Convective patterns in liquid crystals driven by electric field
Dynamical phenomena in nematic liquid crystals induced by light
Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots from Thin Solid Films
Macroscopic and mesophysics together: the moving contact line problem revisited
Nanoscale Effects in Mesoscopic Films
Dynamics of thermal polymerization waves
Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation in Solid Fuel Combustion
Self-organization of microtubules and motors
Physics of DNA