ERC Starting Grant · 2017
Life-like Supramolecular Materials based on Reaction Cycles with Designed Feedback
This “Life-Cycle” ERC proposal aims to develop a new class of artificial supramolecular materials that are kept in sustained non-equilibrium states by continuous dissipation of chemical fuels. Supramolecular polymers in current artificial materials stick together through weak reversible bonds that can be exchange by thermal energy. In contrast, natural supramolecular polymers such as those in the cytoskeletal network use chemical fuels such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to achieve an incredible adaptivity, motility, growth, and response to external inputs. Development of chemically fueled artificial supramolecular polymers should therefore lead to more life-like materials that could…
From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.
← All labs at Strasbourg Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry