Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry seeks to mimic the ability of life forms to
use conserved sets of building blocks and chemical reactions to achieve a bewildering array …

Coacervates are condensed liquid-like droplets, usually formed with oppositely charged
polymeric molecules. They have been studied extensively in colloid and interface science …

Bottom‐up synthetic biology is the science of building systems that mimic the structure and
function of living cells from scratch. To do this, researchers combine tools from chemistry …

Essentially, all motion in living organisms emerges from the collective action of biological
molecular machines transforming chemical energy, originally harvested from light, into …

Building on our ability to design and synthesise molecules and our understanding of the
noncovalent interactions between these molecules, the chemical sciences are currently …

Many intrinsically disordered proteins self-assemble into liquid droplets that function as
membraneless organelles. Because of their biological importance and ability to colocalize …

A key goal of chemistry is to develop synthetic systems that mimic biology, such as self-
assembling, self-replicating models of minimal life forms. Oscillations are often observed in …

Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …

Biological cells are highly organized, with numerous subcellular compartments.
Phosphorylation has been hypothesized as a means to control the assembly/disassembly of …

The development of bioinks for bioprinting of cell‐laden constructs remains a challenge for
tissue engineering, despite vigorous investigation. Hydrogels to be used as bioinks must …