Penn researchers help nanoscale engineers choose self-assembling proteins
Monday, May 30, 2011 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Engineering structures on the smallest possible scales -- using molecules and individual atoms as building blocks -- is both physically and conceptually challenging. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has now developed a method of computationally selecting the best of these blocks, drawing inspiration from the similar behavior of proteins in making biological structures.