Chemists and linguists unite to encode Confucian proverb using sequence-defined polymers

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Interdisciplinary collaboration tests how two encoding schemas preserve the visual details of Chinese characters

 A unique collaboration between chemists and linguists links linguistic considerations with information storage for the first time. The interdisciplinary project has resulted in the successful encryption and subsequent decryption of a Confucius proverb in both Unicode and Zhèng Mă using sequence-defined polymers.