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Can artificial materials be developed that rival nature’s

ability to self-assemble and self-replicate? Zorana Zeravcic,

lecturer and researcher at the École Supérieure de Physique

et de Chimie Industrielles Paris Sciences et Lettres Research

University in Paris, outlines investigations on the subject

being carried out by her department and by counterparts at

Harvard University in the US. Drawing on methodologies and

knowledge from across the sciences, their simulations have

yielded previously unenvisioned complex functionalities that

could transform the way we build.

Zorana Zeravcic

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