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Complexity from small molecules

Nature Nanotechnology volume 13, pages 979–980 (2018)Cite this article

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Chemical oscillations emerge during the chemically fuelled self-assembly of a perylene diimide derivative as a result of simple feedback mechanisms.

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Fig. 1: Chemical oscillations in self-assembling systems.

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