Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

A chemically fuelled self-replicator

  • Sarah M. Morrow,
  • Ignacio Colomer,
  • Stephen P. Fletcher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08885-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding how simple chemical mixtures transition into truly emergent systems is essential to create new lifelike materials. Here, the authors show a self-replicating system that can be maintained out-of-equilibrium by an oxidant fuel in analogy to simple metabolic cycles.