title: Recent highlights in systems chemistry.
abstract: Systems chemistry deals with complex systems which exhibit properties that emerge only through the collective behavior of its components. Selected examples of recent advances in this field include the spontaneous synchronization of oscillating reactions, new methodology for developing chemical systems that exhibit reaction-diffusion patterns, chiral symmetry breaking in dispersions of crystals, the emergence of self-replicators from molecular networks, and self-assembly under kinetic control.
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, Centre for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jérôme Jp
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Peyralans
authors.forename: Sijbren
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otto
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry / Q000379:methods*; D007700:Kinetics; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013598:Systems Theory