A paper by Assistant Professor Muneyuki Matsuo of the Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life was selected as one of the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles in chemistry and materials sciences published in 2021.

In his paper, Matsuo presents the world's first experimental elucidation of the mystery of how molecular assemblies came to proliferate, shedding light on the origins of life itself. The paper has also been widely covered in various media outlets.

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