The natural world is a beautiful and intricate system of intertwined and overlapping materials ecosystems. As humans, our understanding of the various interrelationships is only at the most basic level.  One important reason why these naturally interdependent cyclic systems exist with exquisite complexity is because of the very fact that they all co-emerged over hundreds of thousands of years in the presence of one another. Evolutionary forces drove symbiotic relationships by selecting for and against mechanisms and materials that were conducive to the success of the entire multi-component matrix making smart" materials. This presentation will describe examples of extrapolating molecular mechanisms found in nature to form succesful technologies.<br/>

Learning from nature's genius: smart molecular mechanisms

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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