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Nature 457, 974 (19 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/457974a; Published online 18 February 2009
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Materials science: Let assemblies bloom
Stefano Tonzani
Abstract
In nature, complexity and order can often result from self-assembly — the spontaneous and reversible aggregation of the components of a disordered system into an ordered one. But so far, researchers have mainly studied systems of one or two components, whereas nature can mix many more — as is the case, for example, with the assembly of ribosomes, the protein-synthesizing organelles in cells.
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