Beyond crystals: The dialectic of materials and information

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1969, 2012, Pages 2807-2822

  Cartwright, Julyan H E ^a   MacKay, Alan L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Crystallography; Information; Materials; Self assembly; Self organization

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; NANOMATERIAL;

BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EDITORIAL; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOGENESIS; BIOPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84861946730     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0106     Document Type: Review

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