Talk:Self-assembly

I think that this page is in need of a severe facelift. I am a researcher in nanoscale self-assembled systems and would be happy to improve the page a bit. Contributions from people other fields would be welcome though as self-assembly is a widespread term in chemistry, physics biology and materials sciences. I think that the page should contain some more examples of both synthetic and naturally occuring materials, that are conceived to be self-assembled. The article should also be cleared from meaningless abbreviations such as "NBB's" that are not popularized in the field. It could also be linked up better with similar topics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Astrolux (talk • contribs) 18:04, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

New page for molecular self-assembly
I think that molecular self-assembly should have its own page. Self-assembly is a very broad term that covers many fields of science. Molecular-self assembly is a important concept in biology and supramolecular chemistry. I think that it is distictive and important enough to have its own page. Please comment if you object otherwise I will create a new page and move the relevant content on molecular self assebly there in about a week. M stone 11:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I've just added "SA in chemistry and materials science" to this page, now I realised that there's also a "molecular SA" entry where this could fit as well. But:

there is a distinction between self-assembly and self-organization. According to my experience (I'm a researcher working in self-assembled materials like mesoporous materials), SA has to do with chemistry (in this sense it is more general than molecular SA but always in the field of chemistry), whereas SO is a broader terms and applies to galaxies, dynamic patterns, movements of flock of birds and schools of fish etc. (and of course, also chemistry and physics).

So, I'd move back the content of "molecular SA" into the "SA" entry, add a link in "molecular SA" pointing to "SA" and "SO", and leave the general stuff to the "self-organization" entry. Any ideas/comments?

-- Ste nohype 10:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Reference 4 (Kralchevski et al, Langmuir, 2004) may be invalid as it appears that Kralchevski never published a paper in Langmuir in 2004. He does have three Langmuir papers from the early 90's, if one of these is correct the date needs to be changed. It would also be of use to have the title of the paper included, or some other more identifiable information (i.e. the DOI).

Is self assembly really only applicable to non-covalent systems?
As a researcher in the field of inorganic chemistry I'd have to disagree with the statement that self assembly is only associated with non-covalent systems. For example, people talk about the self-assembly of polyoxometalates, MOFs, coordination assemblies (or metallacages) etc. all of which have covalent interactions. I agree that non-covalent systems are easier to self-assemble and therefore are more widespread but they are not the only ones. 132.76.50.5 (talk) 10:11, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

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