Template Polymerization

S. Polowinski9781895198157, 1-895198-15-1, 1-895198-15-1

By borrowing from the techniques of biosynthesis, the emerging technology of template polymerization holds out the prospect of made-to-measure polymers with new levels of structural design and control. Just as the DNA in a living cell acts as a template for the proteins produced by the cell, so template polymerization techniques treat polymer precursors as templates on which the polymers are formed in a predetermined and controlled manner.