Molecular Building Blocks and Their Architecture in Biologically/Environmentally Compatible Soft Matter Chemical Machinery

tions 1) .When self-assembled molecules and/or polymer networks form heterogeneous interfaces or membranes, they exhibit additional long-range interactions, and environmental stimuli and perturbations may have an effect in the range from nanometers to millimeters 2) .Therefore, non-covalent and long-range interactions of molecular building blocks shed light on the architecture of highly organized chemical machinery with functions including multimodal responses to stimuli, autonomous motion, and Abstract: This review briefly summarizes recent developments in the construction of biologically/ environmentally compatible chemical machinery composed of soft matter.Since environmental and living systems are open systems, chemical machinery must continuously fulfill its functions not only through the influx and generation of molecules but also via the degradation and dissipation of molecules.If the degradation or dissipation of soft matter molecular building blocks and biomaterial molecules/polymers can be achieved, soft matter particles composed of them can be used to realize chemical machinery such as selfpropelled droplets, drug delivery carriers, tissue regeneration scaffolds, protocell models, cell-/tissuemarkers, and molecular computing systems.