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COMPLEXITY
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 10-17Publisher
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20235
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We critically review concepts of self-organization and self-assembly, and extract from this analysis consistent and workable definitions of both concepts that are applicable across many scientific disciplines. In essence, we distinguish self-organization from self-assembly on a thermodynamic basis, where self-organization implies a nonequilibrium process and self-assembly is reserved for spontaneous processes tending toward equilibrium. This discrimination is consistent with early uses of both terms. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 14: 10-17, 2008.
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