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 …

The fundamental roles that peptides and proteins play in today's biology makes it almost
indisputable that peptides were key players in the origin of life. Insofar as it is appropriate to …

During the billions of years of the evolutionary journey, primitive polymers, involved in proto
metabolic pathways with low catalytic activity, played critical roles in the emergence of …

The field of prebiotic chemistry has been dedicated over decades to finding abiotic routes
towards the molecular components of life. There is nowadays a handful of prebiotically …

Human civilization has witnessed the use of materials-derived from biomolecules of plants
and animal origin for biomedical applications since ancient era. In recent years, precision …

The soft and wet machines of life emerged as the spatially enclosed ensemble of
biomolecules with replicating capabilities integrated with metabolic reaction cycles that …

Nature chose phosphates to activate amino acids, where reactive intermediates and
complex machinery drive the construction of polyamides. Outside of biology, the pathways …

Dynamic, dissipative reactions play important roles in biological processes, and emulating
such biological processes by artificial circuits and networks is a challenging topic in the area …

Inspired by nature where intracellular dynamic interactions between DNA, RNA and proteins
processed within complex networks leading to programmed reaction patterns, extensive …

Supramolecular living matter is remarkably complex in composition and structure and often
exists far from equilibrium. The biological manufacturing process involves …