Researchers in United Kingdom have discovered a way to put together pi-functional building blocks to make large amounts of macromolecules. On a copper surface, C-H bonds are directly activated to join units together. C-H bond's in building blocks existence holds significance because it picks up available units and then links different macromolecular structures. Numerous products have been checked to establish the functions of the structures. There is a potential for "new electronic devices, biomedical and environmental sensors, energy harnessing systems and novel catalysts." The team, led by David Amabilino, now at the University of Nottingham and Rasmita Raval of the University of Livepool method of hetero-coupling molecules, an already functionalized outlook helps to enhance the range of multiple entities with numerous components. The team's strategy has made them look into the synthetic biology where they found methods on different combinations being possible to build strands of DNA or peptide building blocks. They wish to take the products and further their investigation. Many other structures are linked together for later identifications. The new coupling technique revealed by the team will help to distinguish the macromolecule functionality on a surface.
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http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/09/pick-mix-link-macromolecules
Hi Parnean,
ReplyDeleteThe idea of making macromolecules and building DNA is really interesting! You mentioned that biomedical and environmental sensors could be created using this technology and I would like to know what kinds of sensors those would be. What would they measure and how would building these macromolecules help sense different things? I would also like to know more about the hetero-coupling technique and what it is used for.
-Rashmi