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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankDYNAMICSOFSELF-ORGANIZEDANDSELF-ASSEMBLEDSTRUCTURESPhysicalandbiologicalsystemsdrivenoutofequilibriummayspontaneouslyevolvetoformspatialstructures.Insomesystemsmolecularconstituentsmayself-assembletoproducecomplexorderedstructures.Thisbookdesc
2、ribeshowsuchpatternformationprocessesoccurandhowtheycanbemodeled.Experimentalobservationsareusedtointroducethediversesystemsandphenom-enaleadingtopatternformation.Thephysicaloriginsofvariousspatialstructuresarediscussed,andmodelsfortheirformationareconstructed.Incontrastto
3、manytreatments,pattern-formingprocessesinnonequilibriumsystemsaretreatedinacoherentfashion.Thebookshowshownear-equilibriumandfar-from-equilibriummodelingconceptsareoftencombinedtodescribephysicalsystems.Thisinterdisciplinarybookcanformthebasisofgraduatecoursesinpatternform
4、a-tionandself-assembly.Itisausefulreferenceforgraduatestudentsandresearchersinanumberofdisciplines,includingcondensedmatterscience,nonequilibriumsta-tisticalmechanics,nonlineardynamics,chemicalbiophysics,materialsscience,andengineering.RashmiC.DesaiisProfessorEmeritusofPhy
5、sicsattheUniversityofToronto,Canada.RaymondKapralisProfessorofChemistryattheUniversityofToronto,Canada.DYNAMICSOFSELF-ORGANIZEDANDSELF-ASSEMBLEDSTRUCTURESRASHMIC.DESAIANDRAYMONDKAPRALUniversityofTorontoCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Sin
6、gapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,TokyoCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521883610©R.C.DesaiandR.Kapral2009Thispublicat
7、ionisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublishedinprintformat2009ISBN-13978-0-511-71966-0eBook(NetLibrary)ISBN-13978-
8、0-521-88361-0HardbackCambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccura