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from a paper I found when I was creating some order in my bookshelves:<\/p>\n
Peter Dittrich, Jens Ziegler, and Wolfgang Banzhaf:<\/p>\n
Artificial chemistries – a review. Artificial Life, 7(3):225–275, 2001 <\/p>\n
the quote runs:<\/p>\n
”<\/p>\n
Mechanical Artificial Chemistry<\/p>\n
Hosokawa et al. [64] show that a mechanical self-assembly system can be regarded as a
\nchemical system. This allows to build a model for the yield of the desired target structure
\nby means of chemical kinetics theory. In [64] this approach is demonstrated by deriving
\nan analytical model for a simple mechanical self-assembling system shown in Fig. 9. The
\nbasic units of the mechanical systems are regular triangular units which may form bonds
\nby permanent magnets. This work demonstrates that artificial chemistry research is not
\nlimited to formal or algorithmic systems.<\/p>\n
Another physical model of a chemical system has been developed by Grzybowski,
\nStone, and Whitesides [55]. It consists of millimeter-size discs rotating at a liquid-air
\ninterface. An important difference to the work of Hosokawa et al. [64] is that the emergent
\nstructures are dissipative. This means, that the structures are only present as long as
\nthey are supplied with energy. The energy is fed into the system by a permanent magnet
\nrotating underneath the liquid.<\/p>\n
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the images above are two pictures from the paper by Hosokawa referred to:<\/p>\n
Kazuo Hosokawa, Isao Shimoyama, and Hirofumi Miura. Dynamics of self-assembling systems –
\nanalogy with chemical kinetics. In R.A. Brooks and P. Maes, editors, Artificial Life IV, pages
\n172\u2013180, Cambridge, MA, 1994. MIT Press. (not online for non-subscribers unfortunately, I should get a subscription..)<\/p>\n
looks very intriguing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
from a paper I found when I was creating some order in my bookshelves: Peter Dittrich, Jens Ziegler, and Wolfgang Banzhaf: Artificial chemistries – a review. Artificial Life, 7(3):225–275, 2001 the quote runs: ” Mechanical Artificial Chemistry Hosokawa et al. [64] show that a mechanical self-assembly system can be regarded as a chemical system. This … Continue reading mechanical self-assembly<\/span>