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✍ Scribed by Dr. Brigitte Küppers

• Book ID: 102845055
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 652 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0172-1526
• DOI: 10.1002/germ.201190025

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Inspired by taking a close look at Mother Nature, polymer chemists began synthesising chains of molecules that all have the same length and structure and which can even self‐replicate. With this work, they are developing fundamental principles for new and interesting materials.