Chemical Complexity: Self-Organization Processes in Molecular Systems (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Self-organization vs. self-assembly.- Thermodynamics of open systems.- The Turing instability.- Waves in the heart.- The Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.- Surface catalysis.- Corrosion of steels.- Nonequilibrium soft matter.- Phase transitions in reactive systems.- Self-organization in biological cells.- Protein machines and molecular motors.- Active propulsion on microscales.- Oscillators and synchronization phenomena.- Chemical chaos.- Network problems.- Design and control of self-organizing systems.- Open problems and application perspectives.