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To: kinkblot who wrote (501)8/25/2002 10:56:05 AM
From: The Ox  Read Replies (1) of 565
 
Thanks for the link, Will. Here's another from GTRI:

gtresearchnews.gatech.edu

Imitating Nature: Self-assembly Technique May Build Designer Polymers from Modular Scaffolds & Building Blocks

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Future designer polymers may be assembled like children's Lego toys using modular polymer scaffolds programmed to attract building blocks of small molecules. Weak and easily reversed chemical interactions would self-assemble those molecules to form complex structures with predictable physical and chemical properties.

In the natural world, self-assembly techniques produce thousands of varied life forms -- bacteria to human beings -- based on a relatively small set of amino acids and nucleosides combined in different ways. By emulating this natural system, polymer chemists at the Georgia Institute of Technology hope to simplify the synthesis of new materials for light-emitting diodes, optical storage materials, biosensors, drug-delivery materials and other applications......
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