Bottom-Up Self-Organization in Supramolecular Soft Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Hierarchical Self-organization and Self-assembly: Metal Nanoparticles in Polymer Matrices

   • Tomohiko Yamaguchi, Nobuhiko Suematsu, Hitoshi Mahara

   Pages 1-10

3. Aggregate Structure and Dynamic Percolation in Microemulsions

   • Martin Kraska, Björn Kuttich, Bernd Stühn

   Pages 11-64

4. Electric Field Effects in Chemical Patterns

   • Patricia Dähmlow, Chaiya Luengviriya, Stefan C. Müller

   Pages 65-82

5. Charge Transport in Chain of Nanoparticles

   • L. V. Govor, J. Parisi

   Pages 83-99

6. Influence of Nanoparticles on the Mechanism and Properties of Nanocomposites Obtained in Frontal Regime

   • A. O. Tonoyan, S. P. Davtyan, S. C. Müller

   Pages 101-126

7. Nonlinear Dynamics of Reactive Nanosystems: Theory and Experiments

   • Y. De Decker, D. Bullara, C. Barroo, T. Visart de Bocarmé

   Pages 127-150

8. Automated Polarized Microscopy Analysis of Fluorescent and Birefrigent Nano- and Microfibers

   • Frank Balzer, Manuela Schiek

   Pages 151-176

9. Colloidal Copper Sulphide Based Nanocrystals as Building Blocks for Self-assembled Nanostructures

   • Joanna Kolny-Olesiak, Jürgen Parisi

   Pages 177-193

10. Supramolecular Organization of \(\pi \)-Conjugated Oligomers

    • Arne Lützen

    Pages 195-236

11. Negative Curvature and Control of Excitable Biological Media

    • Marcel Hörning, Emilia Entcheva

    Pages 237-258

12. Self-organization of Nanoparticle-Membrane Systems: Reconstitution of Cell Migration

    • Ken H. Nagai, Tsutomu Hamada

    Pages 259-270

13. Deterministic Antidissipation

    • Otto E. Rössler, Frank Kuske, Ali Sanayei

    Pages 271-280

14. Example of a Beneficial Interactional Instability

    • Otto E. Rössler

    Pages 281-282

15. Back Matter

    Pages 283-293

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This book presents the general concepts of self-organized spatio-temporal ordering processes. These concepts are demonstrated via prototypical examples of recent advances in materials science. Particular emphasis is on nano scale soft matter in physics, chemistry, biology and biomedicine. The questions addressed embrace a broad spectrum of complex nonlinear phenomena, ranging from self-assembling near the thermodynamical equilibrium to dissipative structure formation far from equilibrium. Their mutual interplay gives rise to increasing degrees of hierarchical order. Analogues are pointed out, differences characterized and efforts are made to reveal common features in the mechanistic description of those phenomena.

• Deterministic Antidissipation
• Dynamic percolation in microemulsions
• Hierarchical self-organization
• Nanoparticle-membrane Systems
• Nonlinear Dynamics of Reactive Nanosystems
• Self-assembly of metal nanoparticles
• Self-organization versus self-assembly
• Spatial and temporal order molecular architectures
• Structure formation on the nanoscale
• Supramolecular Organization

• Department of Experimental Physics, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  Stefan C. Müller

• Department of Physics, Energy and Semiconductor Research Laboratory, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  Jürgen Parisi

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