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Science 7 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5783, pp. 55 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.1129512
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Perspectives

CHEMISTRY:
Self-Assembly in Action

Virgil Percec1, Goran Ungar2, Mihai Peterca1

Growth of supramolecular structures is in some respects analogous to a phase transition and thus can be described by familiar thermodynamic models.

1V. Percec and M. Peterca are in the Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: percec{at}sas.upenn.edu peterca{at}sas.upenn.edu 2G. Ungar is in the Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK. E-mail: g.ungar{at}shef.ac.uk

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