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It is by now commonplace to claim that biology is ‘self assembled soft matter’. That claim is true, but misses half of the physics. Along side self assembly, biology from molecules through cells to ecosystems, also makes use of highly targeted self disassembly processes (‘death’) to produce products to feed back into self assembly. Very often, these disassembly processes are active, typically consuming energy in the form of ATP. In this talk, I will give an overview of biological active self disassembly processes, and argue that coming to a physics-based understanding of such process would represent not only a big step forward in biological physics, but should offer a new paradigm for the synthesis of new materials by deliberately coupling self assembly to targeted active self disassembly.

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