Nanowerk  January 19, 2022 Self-organization is a central feature of biological systems. Researchers in Germany have developed an approach based on the concept of time complexity, which allows new strategies to be created for the more efficient synthesizing of complex structures. They showed that different control scenarios can informatively be characterized by their time complexity, i.e., their scaling of the assembly time with the structure size, analogous to algorithms for computational problems. Especially for large structures, differences in the time complexity of the scenarios lead to strongly diverging time efficiencies. Most significantly, they showed that by effectively regulating the supply […]