Talk:Self-assembly

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[edit] 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)