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Simultaneous covalent and noncovalent hybrid polymerizations

Published:2016-01-29 Issue:6272 Volume:351 Page:497-502
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Yu Zhilin¹,Tantakitti Faifan²,Yu Tao¹,Palmer Liam C.¹³,Schatz George C.¹⁴,Stupp Samuel I.¹²³⁵⁶

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

2. Department of Materials and Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

3. Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, 303 East Superior Street, 11th floor, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

4. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

5. Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

6. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

Abstract

Doubling down on polymerization In biology, structural polymers such as cytoskeletal fibers assemble from covalently polymerized monomers through weaker supramolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonds. Yu et al. report the synthesis of cylindrical fibers when three monomers react, two covalently and one in a supramolecular fashion. When the reaction proceeded stepwise, lower-molecular-weight flat tapes formed instead, which suggests that supramolecular interactions helped to catalyze the covalent polymerization. Science , this issue p. 497

Funder

NSF

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences

DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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