Copper ions as morphogens for the formation of polymer films by click chemistry
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are envious of nature because of its ability to build up highly complex structures like organs and tissues in an ordered fashion without any problem; it takes a great deal of effort for scientists to produce defined microscale structures. Pierre Schaaf and a team of scientists from Strasbourg have now imitated a few of natures tricks in order to get a polymer film to "grow" onto a surface. As the researchers report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they used morphogens as nature does. These signal molecules show a reaction which way it should go.