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ArticleACS central science2021

Chemoadaptive Polymeric Assemblies by Integrated Chemical Feedback in Self-Assembled Synthetic Protocells.

Samuel Pearce, Juan Perez-Mercader

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Article in ACS central science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Stimuli-Responsive Chemical Systems That Mimic Biological Dynamics.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Triggered Polymersome Fusion.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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  11. Thermodynamic State Machine Network.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Samuel PearceDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2661-2702
Juan Perez-MercaderDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-9068

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The design and chemical synthesis of artificial material objects which can mimic the functions of living cells is an important ongoing scientific endeavor. A key challenge necessary for fulfilling the criteria for a system to be living currently regards evolution, which is derived from adaptivity. Integrated chemical loops capable of feedback control are required to achieve chemical systems which exhibit adaptivity. To explore this, we present an integrated, two-component orthogonal chemical process involving reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) based polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) and a copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne click (CuAAC) coupling reaction. The chemical processes are linked through electron transfer from the activated chain-transfer agent (CTA) to the dormant Cu(II) precatalyst. We show that combining these complementary chemistries in a single reaction pot resulted in two primary outcomes: (i) simplification of the PISA process to synthesize the macro-CTA in situ from available nonamphiphilic components and (ii) routes to complexity and adaptation involving population dynamics, morphologies, and dissipative phenomena observed during in situ microscopy analysis.

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