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A theoretical study of self-assembly finds that hexagon-shaped building blocks can form large structures faster than triangular or square blocks.

Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that represents an important milestone on the road to artificial cells.

Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that represents an important milestone on the road to artificial cells.

LMU researchers have developed a new strategy for manufacturing nanoscale structures in a time- and resource-efficient manner. Macromolecules such as

 E-Mail Physicists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that topological phases could exist in biology, and in so doing they have identified a link between solid-state physics and biophysics. The concept of topological phase transitions has become an important topic in theoretical physics, and was first applied to the characterization of unusual states of matter in the 1980s. The quantum Hall effect (QHE) is one example where ideas drawn from topology have yielded new...