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Moore Foundation funds four hubs to rebuild chemistry's design rules

Directing the 10-year, $196.25 million program

Nature already builds materials that assemble themselves, respond to their surroundings and repair damage. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation wants to know why chemistry in a factory rarely does the same, and on November 12 it named four university-led hubs to find out.

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Nature gives us a glimpse of what chemistry can do: materials that assemble themselves, respond to their surroundings and repair damage.

from Moore Foundation funds four hubs to rebuild chemistry's design rules · Updated 1 hour ago

These hubs bring together the expertise to tackle questions we could not answer before and open possibilities for invention we are only beginning to imagine.

from Moore Foundation funds four hubs to rebuild chemistry's design rules · Updated 1 hour ago