ABSTRACT

In this simple quotation, Feynman has perhaps described Nature’s ultimate example of a minimalist self-assembly. Most certainly this is not a molecular level self-assembly, but nonetheless atoms serve to remind us that self-organization of fundamental subatomic entities occurred to give us the most basic building blocks of the universe [2]. These self-assembly events were consummated some 10-13 billion years ago and marked a unique moment in time from which first order was forever derived from chaos. This was the genesis of the long, unrelenting evolutionary journey to more complex forms of natural matter.