Understanding biological and biomimetic assembly processes
We are particularly interested in non-equilibrium processes for which kinetics, rather than thermodynamics, plays the dominant role in controlling organization. This criteria may be general feature of complex organization processes, including those found in biology. For example, studies of a model that mimics viral capsid assembly found that the efficiency of assembly is sharply nonmonotonic with increasing strength of assembly driving forces, even though the properly formed capsid becomes more thermodynamically stable.
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