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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 272–273 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchembio0508-272

Encoding synthetic polymers

Jan C M van Hest

Materials scientists have always been intrigued and inspired by the unsurpassed level of control nature attains in producing biopolymers such as proteins. When synthetic polymers are compared to natural polymers, it is clear that our methodologies fall short with respect to the possibilities of sequence control.