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How Specific Interactions Drive the Complex Organisation of Building Blocks
Author(s) -
Zeravcic Zorana
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2191
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , replicate , computer science , sociology , artificial intelligence , cognitive science , library science , psychology , mathematics , statistics
Can artificial materials be developed that rival nature's ability to self‐assemble and self‐replicate? Zorana Zeravcic, lecturer and researcher at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University in Paris, outlines investigations on the subject being carried out by her department and by counterparts at Harvard University in the US. Drawing on methodologies and knowledge from across the sciences, their simulations have yielded previously unenvisioned complex functionalities that could transform the way we build.