In 1993 Lansbury showed that when he put a smidgen of beta-amyloid-42 into a mixed solution of free-floating amyloid particles, it immediately caused them to coalesce into clumps.

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Friend's large molecules can be mixed into a solution and sprayed onto a screen, using the same technology as ink-jet printers.

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The fix, according to a team at MIT, is self-assembling (and therefore self-repairing) solar cells made up of a synthetic molecular soup containing phospholipids that, when mixed with a solution, attach themselves to a series of carbon nanotubes for alignment.

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