A THEORETICAL AND NUMERICAL MULTISCALE FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PATTERN FORMATION IN PROTEIN CRYSTAL ENGINEERING

The relevance of self-organization, pattern formation, nonlinear phenomena, and nonequilibrium behavior in a wide range of problems related to macromolecular crystal engineering calls for a concerted approach using the tools of statistical physics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modeling, and numerical simulation in synergy with experimentally oriented work. The reason behind such a need is that in many...