Plastic proteins: Synthetic material mimics essential characteristics of natural proteins
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 13:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers—some would say plastics—with the versatility of nature's own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins. Based on an inexpensive industrial chemical, these synthetic polymers might one day be used to create materials with functions as limitless as proteins, which are involved in every facet of life.