# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assembly Topics:: #physic, #biology --- # Self-assembly - Wikipedia 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. When the constitutive components are molecules, the process is termed molecular self-assembly. ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 050223_140509 > > 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. When the constitutive components are molecules, the process is termed molecular self-assembly.