CHED 1621 |
| Biological materials and processes serve as models for many desired engineered materials and devices because of their specialized nature and oftentimes high efficiency. Although now optimized as a result of hereditary evolution, primordial versions of biological materials must have evolved via chemical routes, and therefore it stands to reason that biomimetic chemistry has much to gain from research in chemical evolution. Taken from the perspective of biomimetic chemistry, the experiments of Miller demonstrate a synthetic route from an (inorganic) gas mixture to a pool of organic precursor molecules (i.e. synthons) that might represent a starting point for a combinatorial synthesis. Likewise, the chemical evolution studies of polymerization processes demonstrate how structural entities may be created. The synthesis of a device comes about when these otherwise combinatorial events are directed by exogenous factors. |
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General Papers
1:00 PM-3:20 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Jefferson Ballroom, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |