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We explore here that catalysis may have been performed by alternative polymeric structures, namely hyperbranched polymers. Hyper-branched polymers are relatively complex structures that can be ...

† Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, Biomedical Functional Materials Collaborative Innovation Center, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing ...

Since plausibly prebiotic synthesis of functional polypeptides has proven challenging in the laboratory, we propose that these functions may have been initially performed by alternative macromolecular ...