Self-assembling silicone-based polymers

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 07:20 in Physics & Chemistry

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology, RIKEN and Tohoku University have developed a silicone polymer chain that can self-assemble into a 3-D periodic structure. They achieved this by using their recently reported self-assembling triptycene molecules to modify the ends of the polymer chains.

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