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Ruirui Gu1, Kim Lambertsen Larsen2, Ali Wang3

  • 1Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, China.

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Chemically fueled assembliesDynamic Combinatorial ChemistrySelf-replicationSynthetic lifeSystems chemistry

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