Whitesides G M, Ismagilov R F
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Science. 1999 Apr 2;284(5411):89-92. doi: 10.1126/science.284.5411.89.
"Complexity" is a subject that is beginning to be important in chemistry. Historically, chemistry has emphasized the approximation of complex nonlinear processes by simpler linear ones. Complexity is becoming a profitable approach to a wide range of problems, especially the understanding of life.
