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STRUCTURED PROXIMITY. “The spatiotemporal clustering of functionally related macromolecules increases the probability and rate of productive encounters. The enhanced specificity afforded by the cooperative interactions of multicomponent protein machines resolved questions of how weak, moderately specific interactions (e.g. transcription factor-DNA binding) became functional in vivo.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.13744/full View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT CHEMISTRY. “Just as supramolecular chemistry is inspired by biology, there now arises the need for cell biologists to take note of chemical systems that show emergent physicochemical properties.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.13744/full View in LinkedIn

IN VITRO IS NOT SUFFICIENT. “The emergent physicochemical properties of the cell interior must be identified. This cannot be accomplished by reductionist dissections. The grand challenge is to capture dynamic intracellular structures in vivo directly as they form and function.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.13744/full View in LinkedIn

ANISOTROPIC DNA NANOPARTICLES. "Anisotropic nanoparticles can provide considerable opportunities for assembly of nanomaterials with unique structures and properties." https://lnkd.in/d89Jbyi View in LinkedIn

COUPLINGS. "The polarization of light can be rotated in materials with an absence of molecular or structural mirror symmetry. While this rotating ability is normally rather weak in naturally occurring chiral materials, artificial chiral metamaterials have demonstrated extraordinary rotational ability by engineering intra-molecular couplings." https://lnkd.in/dScRSz9 View in LinkedIn

UNUSUAL PROPERTIES. "Negative index metamaterials (NIMs) give rise to many unusual properties and phenomena, which may lead to important applications such as a superlens, subwavelength cavity and slow light devices." https://lnkd.in/dB36GiY View in LinkedIn

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NEGATIVELY REFRACTIVE CHIRAL METAMATERIALS. "Chirality extends the class of negatively refracting metamaterials by endowing a richer palette of electromagnetic properties. Millions of research dollars have been spent during the last decade on this topic, following experimental reports of negative refraction in certain metamaterials under microwave illumination...negative refraction is not exclusive to artificial metamaterials: certain biological structures and naturally occurring minerals also exhibit negative refraction." https://lnkd.in/dZSW9Fz View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT WORK on metamaterials driven by profound mathematical insights into the physical properties of materials. A lovely read. https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-18-14-14553&id=202793 View in LinkedIn

PREDICTION. "Recently, it was predicted that strong enough optical activity may result in negative refraction and negative reflection." https://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=oe-18-14-14553&seq=0 View in LinkedIn