Propagating waves of self-assembly in organosilane monolayers.

ABSTRACT: Wavefronts associated with reaction-diffusion and self-assembly processes are ubiquitous in the natural world. For example, propagating fronts arise in crystallization and diverse other thermodynamic ordering processes, in polymerization fronts involved in cell movement and division, as well as in the competitive social interactions and population dynamics of animals at much larger scales. Although it is often claimed that self-sustaining or autocatalytic front propagation is well described by mean-field "reaction-diffusion" or "phase field" ordering models, it has recently become appreciated from simulations and theoretical arguments that fluctuation effects in lower spatial dimensions can lead to appreciable deviations from the classical mean-field theory (MFT) of this type of front prop

SUBMITTER: Douglas JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1965512 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature