Description
Book SynopsisThis second review volume is a follow-up to the book “Engineering of Chemical Complexity” that appeared in 2013. Co-edited by the Nobel laureate Gerhard Ertl, this book provides a broad perspective over the current research aimed at understanding, the design and control of complex chemical systems of various origins, on the scales ranging from single molecules and nano-phenomena to macroscopic chemical reactors. Self-organization behavior and emergence of coherent collective dynamics in reaction-diffusion systems, in active soft matter and biochemical networks are discussed. Special attention is paid to applications in cell biology, to molecular motors and microfluidics effects. The reviews, prepared by leading international experts from the EU, USA, Russia and Japan, together yield a fascinating picture of a rapidly developing research discipline that brings chemical engineering to new frontiers.
Table of ContentsOscillatory Behavior in Cellular Regulatory Networks; Chemically-Driven Biological Brownian Machines; Modeling Substrate-Based Motility of Eukaryotic Cells; Stimuli-Induced Reconfiguration and Directed Motion of Responsive Gels; From Colloid Thermophoresis to Thermophoretic Machines; Collective Motions in Populations of Microdroplets; Dissipative Patterns in Systems of Coupled Reactive Nano- and Microdroplets; Dynamics of Filaments of Scroll Waves; Control of Chemical Wave Propagation; Synchronization Phenomena during Elecrodissolution of Silicon; and other papers;
