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SURFACE AREA. "Nanoscale materials have far larger surface areas that similar masses of large scale materials. As surface area per mass of material increases, a greater amount of the material can come into contact with surrounding materials, thus affecting reactivity." https://lnkd.in/e-N6F8s View in LinkedIn

NANO PROPERTIES. "A majority of biological processes occur at the nanoscale...these phenomena are based in "quantum effects". Properties of materials are size-dependent in this scale range." https://lnkd.in/e-N6F8s View in LinkedIn

UNUSUAL PROPERTIES of materials, either intrinsic or artificially created, represents an opportunity to exploit those properties for programmable materials or for making useful technologies. Nature provides an infinite number of examples, many of which were innocently discovered by exploring coloration and light diffraction from natural objects. https://lnkd.in/e2grmv8 View in LinkedIn

COMMON GATEWAY TO NEW PROPERTIES. "Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking underpins a variety of areas such as subatomic physics and biochemistry, and leads to an impressive range of fundamental phenomena." https://lnkd.in/eqFnZCi View in LinkedIn

GEORGE CHURCH AND LEFTIES. Mirror life thought experiment: "create a life form that runs on a different operating system from our own, based in mirror-image versions of earthly protein and DNA. Let these alien cells grow and mutate, and see how they survive." https://lnkd.in/epWqxGi View in LinkedIn

EXTRATERRESTIAL. "The finding of small but significant L-enantiomeric excesses (ee) in some amino acids of carbonaceous meteorites that are rare or unknown in the biosphere appears to indicate that interstellar and planetary chemical evolution (i.e., purely physicochemical abiotic processes) could yield chiral asymmetry." https://lnkd.in/eVkEQQj View in LinkedIn

MURCHISON. "At the same time, L-excesses of alanine were again found in Murchison but now with enrichment in the isotope 15N, however, the isotopic pairing was later contested on analytical grounds." https://lnkd.in/e6T2vir View in LinkedIn

ALARM SIGNALS IN PLANTS. "Tissue injury inflicted by plant-eating organisms does not go unnoticed; strong selection pressure imposed by biotic stress has fueled the evolution of innovative mechanisms by which plants perceive and respond to tissue damage. Plant hormones occupy a central role in regulating these highly dynamic adaptive responses." https://lnkd.in/eKj_2Vj View in LinkedIn

MURCHISON. "In 1997, L-excesses were also found in a non-protein amino acid, isovaline, suggesting an extraterrestrial source for molecular asymmetry in the Solar System." https://lnkd.in/e6T2vir View in LinkedIn

SHARED MOLECULAR STRATEGIES. "In both plants and animals, oxylipins derived from membrane lipids are sentinels of wound stress. The biochemical logic underlying oxylipin synthesis in plants and animals is remarkably similar." The structural diversity of oxylipins (including the jasmonates) affords functional specificity and high turnover affords an acute signal. https://lnkd.in/eKj_2Vj View in LinkedIn