Self-organization of simpler molecular systems

Assembly of a TV Swarm intelligence City growth Protein folding Crystallization 

Queuing by the post office Building of an ant hill Numbering of book pages DNA duplex formation Oligomeric assembly of hemoglobin 

Assembly of a virus Assembly of ribosomes Formation of micelles Assembly of the cell Surface metal coating 

In the following section some of these examples will be discussed more specifically, and at the end of this chapter a classification of the main self-orgaifizafion phenomena will be proposed. 

Micelle formation is a nice example of self-organization under thermodynamic control. Following the addition of some liquid soap in water at a concentration higher than the cmc, spherical micellar aggregates spontaneously form. This process takes place with a negative free-energy change - actually the process is attended by an increase of entropy. 

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Self-organization of simpler molecular systems Table 5.1. Examples of self-organization and not. 

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