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. 2021 Jun 8;9:682743. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2021.682743

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Simplified example of the self-assembly of Starting “building block” Molecules into Final “assembled” Product through repeated association and dissociation events that produce intermediates, erroneous intermediates, and side products. Note that each step of self-assembly is reversible, and therefore the entire process is in dynamic equilibrium (Whitelam and Jack, 2015).