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 …

Although dynamic self-assembly, DySA, is a relatively new area of research, the past
decade has brought numerous demonstrations of how various types of components–on …

Protocells at life's origin are often conceived as bilayer-enclosed precursors of life, whose
self-reproduction rests on the early advent of replicating catalytic biopolymers. This …

Lipid bilayer membranes form compartments requisite for life. Interfacing supramolecular
systems, including receptors, catalysts, signal transducers and ion transporters, enables the …

In recent years, chemists have worked to understand how fundamental chemical principles
change when systems are confined to spaces with nanoscale dimensions or sub-microliter …

Living organisms are the most complex chemical system known to exist, yet they exploit only
a small constellation of universally conserved metabolites to support indefinite evolution …

Although aqueous solutions are considered to be sustainable, environmentally friendly
reaction media, their use is often limited by poor reactant solubility. This limitation can be …

Understanding the fundamental catalytic principles when the catalytic centre is confined in
nanoscale space that is dimensionally comparable to the reactant molecule is crucial for …

The chemical replication of RNA inside fatty acid vesicles is a plausible step in the
emergence of cellular life. On the primitive Earth, simple protocells with the ability to import …

For practical biomedical applications, the stabilization of nanoscale metal–organic
frameworks (NMOFs) in the presence of phosphate is of prime importance but remains a …