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My absolutely favorite tulips are just emerging in the wet warm weather. View in LinkedIn

ONE CRITERION. “It is known that the usual values of the biological degree of order, or the quantity of information in alive organisms, do not provide to make difference between the alive and lifeless structures. If one uses the thermodynamics criteria, as it was pointed out by L. Blumenfeld, an alive organism has no difference compared with a piece of rock of the same weight.” https://lnkd.in/e5j8kGmx View in LinkedIn

EVERYTHING COMPUTES. “The actual quantum constituents and their interactions, giving rise to the effective tension structure, is another matter entirely. In discussing relative geometry, we have merely assumed such a quantum level structure based on information exchange to exist, and restricted the discussion to a region and scale where it is valid to disregard them in every sense except for their average impact.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

STRUCTURE FROM INFORMATION. “It is classical in the same sense that general relativity is, with the difference that there is structure from information connectivity in the absence of curvature.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

MINERAL BRIDGES. “An assembly of mineral bridge connected crystals is in fact also a single crystal. Thus, this concept is the most straightforward one among the mesocrystal formation mechanisms to explain the mutual crystallographic orientation of the nanocrystal.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

SOLVENT ACTIONS. “Release of surface hydration water or attached surfactant molecules can yield an additional entropic driving force besides the energy gain through elimination of two high energy surfaces. This would transform the mesocrystal into a single crystal.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

INTRAMOLECULAR FORCES. “Beside physical fields with longer range, there are also forces upon particle contact. Already two identical crystal faces can orient each other when brought in close contact, as was observed in the process of oriented aggregation. The principal attractive force between two objects is the van der Waals attraction, which can lead to aggregation of particles.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend continues from last weekend and concludes on Sunday on the theme of mesocrystals in biomaterials. Both mesocrystals and biominerals are outliers in their unusual physical properties, and chemists have been trying to understand biomineralization in order to advance biomimicry chemistry to create advanced materials with enhanced properties. https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

The inchplant, tradescantia zebrina, has irridescent purple leaf undersides that shine through the upper leaf. Truly magnificent. View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT PROPERTIES. “Mesocrystals from functional materials are highly attractive due to the emergent properties of mesocrystalline materials, such as single crystal-like behavior, high crystallinity, high porosity and inner connection bridged by organic components and/or inorganic nanocrystals. Such property combinations in a single material are unrivalled compared to amorphous, polycrystalline, and single-crystalline materials.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn