| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/D023343/1 |
| Title: |
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: CHELLnet: Unifying Investigation in Artificial Cellularity and Complexity |
| Principal Investigator: |
Davis, Professor B |
| Other Investigators: |
| Alexander, Professor C |
Whitby, Professor RJ |
Steinke, Dr JHG |
| Thomas, Professor JA |
Courtial, Dr JK |
Krasnogor, Professor N |
| Cronin, Professor L |
Whitaker, Professor JBC |
Schroeder, Professor SLM |
| Robertson, Professor N |
Khlobystov, Professor A |
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| Department: |
Oxford Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
18 July 2005 |
Ends: |
17 July 2009 |
Value (£): |
28,565
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Biological & Medicinal Chem. |
Bioprocess Engineering |
| Chemical Synthetic Methodology |
Complex fluids & soft solids |
| Fundamentals of Computing |
Light-Matter Interactions |
| Modelling & simul. of IT sys. |
Non-linear Systems Mathematics |
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| Chemicals |
Healthcare |
| Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
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CHELLnet, the current proposal, is the product of very intensive discussions that took place during the EPSRC IDEAS factory Chemical Craftwork workshop. During these week-long discussions abiotic life, and hence the name - chemical cell, CHELL - was identified as a research umbrella for an exciting and adventurous research programme. The synthesis of abiotic life-like behaviour in complex chemical systems was recognized as sufficiently rich as to challenge to their limit each and every one of the expertises which were present at the workshop. Moreover, it offered the opportunity to forge novel and unexpected links between various, until now, unrelated research threads. It was agreed by the partners that the research was timely, exciting and that it could ultimately play a major role in redefining chemistry as a discipline. The novelty, and hence the challenges, of the proposed research program lies in the break with the normal view that life-like behaviour can only arise from biological components (nucleic acids, proteins etc). Instead, we are aiming at a much wider view of life, complexity and chemical synthesis. The CHELLnet is an open inclusive network intended to facilitate the coordination of projects examining CHELLs.
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http://www.ox.ac.uk |