How can a nanometer-scale protein generate and transmit forces to control cell shape changes across micrometer-scale distances? A crawling cell pushes its plasma membrane forward. The protein is actin ...
Peptides, which are representative polymers in nature, can be called copolymers that consist of a variety of amino acid units. Surprisingly, although as many as 20 kinds of amino acids have been used ...
Controlled radical polymerization is a means of manufacturing highly branched three-dimensional macromolecules known as hyperbranched polymers. It might employ inimers, compounds containing an ...