The ability to predict and control the ways in which molecules interact and assemble through non-covalent interactions is now yielding a rich harvest in disciplines ranging from materials science to drug design.
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Ball, P. Towards the synthetic dragonfly. Nature 375, 101–102 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/375101a0
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