Self-replicators from dynamic molecular networks: selection, competition and subsystem coupling

Complex (supra)molecular systems are ubiquitous in living organisms as well as in synthetic context but understanding them in depth is still out of reach, mainly because we do not have much insight into the gradual formation of complex behavior from more simple system elements. The motivation of this thesis is to show how complex chemical systems can be constructed and as a result, how the emergence of novel systems phenomena can be understood with the aid of the applied bottom-up approach.