Self-organizing Processes in Non-Crystalline Materials: from Lifeless to Living Objects

Abstract

This work deals with self-organizing processes. These processes play an extremely important role in the phenomena occurring in the living and lifeless nature. One can hardly solve a variety of medical, biological, and technological problems without studying such processes, since the main goal of synergetics (i.e. the science which studies self-organizing systems) is to reveal the general regularities of self-organizing processes in the systems of different nature. This is the reason for the analysis performed in this book concerning fundamental theoretical problems, modelling and investigations of the self-organizing processes in inorganic and organic materials with different levels of complexity, from atomic systems to living organisms.