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SUBMITTER: Colomer I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5993787 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Colomer Ignacio I Morrow Sarah M SM Fletcher Stephen P SP
Nature communications 20180608 1
Developing physical models of complex dynamic systems showing emergent behaviour is key to informing on persistence and replication in biology, how living matter emerges from chemistry, and how to design systems with new properties. Herein we report a fully synthetic small molecule system in which a surfactant replicator is formed from two phase-separated reactants using an alkene metathesis catalyst. The replicator self-assembles into aggregates, which catalyse their own formation, and is therm ...[more]