Overview
- Provides different views of complexity ranging from classical ones involving dissipative processes, emergences and such phenomena, to structure and function in new types of materials.
- Examines the synthetic materials with perhaps the highest known controllable complexity: the polyoxometalates.
- Addresses philosophical, experimental and computational perspectives on complexity.
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (NAPSB)
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About this book
Complexity occurs in biological and synthetic systems alike. This general phenomenon has been addressed in recent publications by investigators in disciplines ranging from chemistry and biology to psychology and philosophy. Studies of complexity for molecular scientists have focussed on breaking symmetry, dissipative processes, and emergence. Investigators in the social and medical sciences have focused on neurophenomenology, cognitive approaches and self-consciousness. Complexity in both structure and function is inherent in many scientific disciplines of current significance and also in technologies of current importance that are rapidly evolving to address global societal needs. Several of these multifaceted scientific disciplines are addressed in this book including complexity from the general and philosophical perspective, magnetic phenomena, control of self assembly and function in large multicomponent clusters, application of theory to probe structure and mechanism in highly complex molecular species, and the design of multifunctional nanoscale molecules of value in decontamination and solar fuels research. Each chapter is both a review and addresses some ongoing challenges, thus each should provide a good preparation for further work in these highly active areas of research endeavour.Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity in Chemistry and Beyond: Interplay Theory and Experiment
Book Subtitle: New and Old Aspects of Complexity in Modern Research
Editors: Craig Hill, Djamaladdin G. Musaev
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5548-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5547-5Published: 07 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5550-5Published: 07 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5548-2Published: 08 January 2013
Series ISSN: 1874-6500
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 242
Number of Illustrations: 165 b/w illustrations
Topics: Inorganic Chemistry, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry