How crystals that sense and respond to their environments could evolve

Natural Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-237

  Schulman, Rebecca ^a   Winfree, Erik ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Crystals; Evolution; Metabolism; Self assembly; Tiles; Universality

Indexed keywords

NANORIBBON;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CODE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 44249115578     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11047-007-9046-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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