Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Research Seminar Series: Benjamin E. Partridge, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Research Seminar Series:
Supramolecular Synthesis to Mimic and Manipulate Nature
Benjamin E. Partridge, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
https://sas.rochester.edu/chm/groups/partridge/
The exquisite functions of natural materials—such as growth, motion, and repair—are enabled by dynamic, transient structures that lie far from equilibrium. Integral to the formation of such structures are noncovalent interactions, which scaffold how biological building blocks assemble both in space and in time. Recapitulating natural functions in synthetic materials thus demands a similar level of structural control. However, such control has thus far proven elusive due to the lack of a robust toolkit for building materials through deliberate, noncovalent synthesis. Our group seeks to address this gap by developing new noncovalent reactions and motifs to fully harness the potential of supramolecular chemistry as a synthetic discipline. In this presentation, I’ll share our initial progress towards meeting this challenge in the context of protein chaperones and hierarchical fibrous networks, using foundational supramolecular chemistry to establish new bioinspired systems.
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