Self-Organization of Hierarchy: Dissipative-Structure Assisted Self-Assembly of Metal Nanoparticles in Polymer Matrices

摘要

Though thermodynamically different, self-assembly and dissipative structure formation often work together to bring about highly ordered structures in an open system. This mutual assistance between self-assembly and dissipative structure formation is regarded as self-organization for a system to increase the degrees of hierarchy and complexity. An example for this comprehensive idea is given by hierarchic self-organization of organo-passivated metal nanoparticles in dissipatively isolated polymer matrices.