scholarly journals Designing Biomimetic, Dissipative Material Systems

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna C. Balazs ◽  
George M. Whitesides ◽  
C. Jeffrey Brinker ◽  
Igor S. Aranson ◽  
Paul Chaikin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Systems ◽  
Dissipative Material

STUDY OF ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIUM OF SOME WET AIRCOMPOSITE MATERIAL SYSTEMS

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stelian Petrescu ◽  
Ioan Mamaliga ◽  
Constantin Baciu
Keyword(s):  
Adsorption Equilibrium ◽  
Material Systems

Numerical Methods for Material Systems with Microstructure

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Dolbow ◽  
Chandrasekhar Annavarapu
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Material Systems

Toward a Nonidealist Evolutionary Synthesis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Evolutionary Synthesis ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Evolution Of Development ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Material Systems ◽  
Modern Physics

The received model of evolution sees all inherited features resulting from deterministic networks of interacting genes, implying that living systems are reducible to information in genetic programs. The model requires these programs and their associated phenotypes to have evolved by an isotropic search process occurring in gradual steps with no preferred morphological outcomes. The alternative is to recognize that clusters and aggregates of cells, the raw material of evolution, constitute middle-scale material systems. This implies the necessity of bringing the modern physics of mesoscale matter into the explanatory framework for the evolution of development. The relevant, often nonlinear, physical processes were mobilized at the inception of the phyla when their signature morphological outcomes first appeared and remain as efficient causes, albeit transformed, in present-day embryos. This physicogenetic perspective reengages with concepts of saltation, orthogenesis, and environment-induced plasticity long excluded from evolutionary theory.

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