Clear and Milky (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Clear and Milky

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A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has shown for the first time, that phase separation is an extremely efficient way of controlling the selection of chemical building blocks, providing advantages to certain molecules. This simple mechanism could have been decisive for the development of life. Left: clear solution; right: inside the tiny oil droplets instable molecules survive longer.

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Andreas Battenberg / TUM

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