CHEMISTRY SEMINAR by Aykut Erbas

Polymers are ubiquitous, providing practically unlimited industrial applications in the age of plastic, organizing information in a highly functional and complex way in biological systems, as seen in the case of genome and proteins. Due to their complex chemical structure and stimuli-response properties, they can also provide many opportunities for the components required for functional biomimetic material systems, such as artificial muscles or skin. Yet, in most cases of interest, polymers are under external forces, either electrical or mechanical, which renders their equilibrium description relatively invalid. This issue becomes more evident when we consider using them as components in soft biomechanics or trying to correlate mechano-biological aspects of epigenetic regulation in mammalian cell nuclei, which confine one of the longest polymers in our body (DNA).

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