Bottom-Up Self-Organization in Supramolecular Soft Matter: Principles and Prototypical Examples of Recent Advances (Springer Series in Materials Science Book 217)

This book presents the general concepts of self-organized spatio-temporal ordering processes. These concepts are demonstrated via prototypical examples of recent advances in materials science. Particular emphasis is on nano scale soft matter in physics, chemistry, biology and biomedicine. The questions addressed embrace a broad spectrum of complex nonlinear phenomena, ranging from self-assembling near the thermodynamical equilibrium to dissipative structure formation far from equilibrium. Their mutual interplay gives rise to increasing degrees of hierarchical order. Analogues are pointed out, differences characterized and efforts are made to reveal common features in the mechanistic description of those phenomena. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Hierarchical Self-organization and Self-assembly: Metal Nanoparticles in Polymer Matrices....Pages 1-10 Aggregate Structure and Dynamic Percolation in Microemulsions....Pages 11-64 Electric Field Effects in Chemical Patterns....Pages 65-82 Charge Transport in Chain of Nanoparticles....Pages 83-99 Influence of Nanoparticles on the Mechanism and Properties of Nanocomposites Obtained in Frontal Regime....Pages 101-126 Nonlinear Dynamics of Reactive Nanosystems: Theory and Experiments....Pages 127-150 Automated Polarized Microscopy Analysis of Fluorescent and Birefrigent Nano- and Microfibers....Pages 151-176 Colloidal Copper Sulphide Based Nanocrystals as Building Blocks for Self-assembled Nanostructures....Pages 177-193 Supramolecular Organization of \(\pi \) -Conjugated Oligomers....Pages 195-236 Negative Curvature and Control of Excitable Biological Media....Pages 237-258 Self-organization of Nanoparticle-Membrane Systems: Reconstitution of Cell Migration....Pages 259-270 Deterministic Antidissipation....Pages 271-280 Example of a Beneficial Interactional Instability....Pages 281-282 Back Matter....Pages 283-293 This book presents the general concepts of self-organized spatio-temporal ordering processes. These concepts are demonstrated via prototypical examples of recent advances in materials science. Particular emphasis is on nanoscale soft matter in physics, chemistry, biology and biomedicine. The questions addressed embrace a broad spectrum of complex nonlinear phenomena, ranging from self-assembling near the thermodynamical equilibrium to dissipative structure formation far from equilibrium. Their mutual interplay gives rise to increasing degrees of hierarchical order. Analogues are pointed out, differences characterized and efforts are made to reveal common features in the mechanistic description of those phenomena. ℗l