SCPS

"Developing sequence controlled polymers for organization, templation and recognition"

 Coordinatore THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 2˙324˙271 €
 EC contributo 2˙324˙271 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2013-CoG
 Funding Scheme ERC-CG
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-04-01   -   2020-01-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

 Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House -
city: COVENTRY
postcode: CV4 8UW

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Catherine
Cognome: Cochrane
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 2476 57 44 53

UK (COVENTRY) hostInstitution 2˙324˙271.00
2    THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

 Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House -
city: COVENTRY
postcode: CV4 8UW

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Rachel Kerry
Cognome: O'reilly
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 24765 23236
Fax: +44 24765 24112

UK (COVENTRY) hostInstitution 2˙324˙271.00

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copies    biological    model    polymers    ultimately    hence    sequence    seems    ability    polymer    materials    self    replication    science    dna    function    scps    evolution    themselves    synthetic    material    nature   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Nature‘s toolbox for replication uses DNA and RNA which are nucleic acids capable of templating new copies of themselves. Nature‘s ability to replicate has led to the evolution of a wide variety of forms and functions for biological materials which cannot be achieved using current synthetic approaches. It seems likely that if we were able to teach plastics or other polymers how to template new copies of themselves that we would similarly be able to make new, impossible materials and hence further expand the potential function and properties of these materials. These new materials would provide enhanced properties and function (such as replication and evolution) that are not currently available to material chemists. This would allow for a best-of-both-worlds scenario with the development of robust synthetic materials, with tuneable properties including crystallinity, thermal properties, shape memory, and self-healing. Most importantly, by developing an empirical and perhaps even model-based connection between polymer sequence / composition and polymer properties it would be possible to begin to design new materials in a rational and knowledge-based way. Indeed, it could be argued that this advance would ultimately solve one of the major problems in materials science, multiscale modelling of polymer properties. It seems certain that achieving even a portion of these goals would open up a completely new area of material science. Hence, following the model of DNA, we propose developing a number of new routes for the preparation of sequence controlled polymers (SCPs) and specifically a new class of SCPs which are capable of replication and ultimately evolution. This will produce polymers and self-assembled structures with unprecedented physical properties and the ability to functionally interact and communicate with biological materials. Realizing this goal will allow us to bring new function to chemistry, through expanding chemical space to access new precision polymers'

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