Howard Colquhoun and Jean-François Lutz consider the potential of synthetic polymers for storing information at the molecular level.
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Colquhoun, H., Lutz, JF. Information-containing macromolecules. Nature Chem 6, 455–456 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1958
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