Self-assembly

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Self-assembly is a process in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure or pattern as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Self-assembly”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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