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 …

Supramolecular polymers exhibit fascinating structures, and their properties, and thus
applications, depend both on the strength and dynamics of the non-covalent bonds and on …

Coulombic interactions can be used to assemble charged nanoparticles into higher-order
structures, but the process requires oppositely charged partners that are similarly sized. The …

Life is a non‐equilibrium state of matter maintained at the expense of energy. Nature uses
predominantly chemical energy stored in thermodynamically activated, but kinetically stable …

All chemists are familiar with the idea that, at equilibrium steady state, the relative
concentrations of species present in a system are predicted by the corresponding …

All biological pumps are autonomous catalysts; they maintain the out-of-equilibrium
conditions of the cell by harnessing the energy released from their catalytic decomposition of …

The flexibility of biomolecules enables them to adapt and transform as a result of signals
received from the external environment, expressing different functions in different contexts …

Pathway complexity, hierarchical organization, out of equilibrium, and metastable or
kinetically trapped species are common terms widely used in recent, high‐quality …

Nature extensively exploits high-energy transient self-assembly structures that are able to
perform work through a dissipative process. Often, self-assembly relies on the use of …

G-Quadruplexes attract growing interest as functional constituents in biology, chemistry,
nanotechnology, and material science. In particular, the reversible dynamic reconfiguration …