Abstract
Self-assembly can be considered a powerful tool in the hand of chemists for the understanding, modeling and mimicking of biological systems. The possibility of reproducing biological functions in synthetic systems obtained by self-assembly is envisioned as a modest but very important step towards the understanding of the mystery of life and its emergence on Earth.
Original language | Undefined |
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Pages (from-to) | 660-673 |
Journal | Current opinion in chemical biology |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2001 |
Keywords
- model studies
- molecular evolution
- allosterism
- Energy transfer
- Self-Assembly
- dynamic combinatorial libraries
- membrane transport
- cytochrome mimics
- Catalysis
- Biomimetics
- METIS-202980
- IR-36758