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mind the philosophy and approach used by living systems in the creation of
monodisperse and discrete supermolecular materials with specific function-
ality. In particular, the design features employed in the creation of proteins
have been used in the creation of materials which do not bear any common
atomistic relationship with proteins themselves. In this way, this new field lies
open for the development of materials for which their design is only limited
by human imagination.
Acknowledgements The authors are very grateful to The Leverhulme Trust, the European
Science Foundation, ESF, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,
EPSRC, for financial support.
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