The influence of shape on parallel self-assembly

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 643-666

  Miyashita, Shuhei ^a   Nagy, Zoltán ^b   Nelson, Bradley J ^b   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Degree of parallelism; Distributed system; Morphology; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953505063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e11040643     Document Type: Article

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