This is as cool as it gets for using organic chemistry to design materials: design your own little lego blocks and let them self assemble into a humongous structure.
I guess I should have added “periodic” structures, explained self assemble, ... oh well. So, No, nature didnt figure out anything close to these constructs until it evolved humans who did it. Zeolites exist in nature but they are not made up of organic molecules and were not as easily designable materials until these techniques were developed.
> No, nature didnt figure out anything close to these constructs until it evolved humans who did it. Zeolites exist in nature but they are not made up of organic molecules and were not as easily designable materials until these techniques were developed.
So you're discounting living organisms themselves?
