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Comments on the Role of Molecular Genetics in Polymer Materials Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Maurille J. Fournier ,
Thomas L. Mason  and
David A. Tirrell
Maurille J. Fournier
Affiliation:
Departments of BiochemistryUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
Thomas L. Mason
Affiliation:
Departments of BiochemistryUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
David A. Tirrell
Affiliation:
Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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The most fundamental goal of the synthetic chemist is control of molecular architecture. With respect to small molecules (i.e., those of molecular weight less than a few thousand), this means absolute control of chemical connectivity and stereochemistry – complete specification of molecular structure. But in macromolecular chemistry, controlled architecture has meant something quite different. Because polymerizations are in general statistical processes, conventional polymeric materials are characterized by substantial heterogeneity in chain length, sequence and stereochemistry [1]. Control is exercised in a statistical sense only, and considerable skill is required to control even the average properties of the chain population and the dispersity in those properties.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 218: Symposium V – Materials Synthesis Based on Biological Processes , 1990 , 45
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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