Month: September 2022

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER (EAP). "Cellulose-based EAP material is also promising as biosensors since it is biodegradable, biocompatible, sustainable, and capable of broad chemical modification and has high mechanical stiffness and strength." https://lnkd.in/eKk_wMN View in LinkedIn

CELLULOSE EAP. "Control of disordered region, recrystallization, and orientation of cellulose are all issues that need to be addressed in order for cellulose EAP to fulfill its promise as a smart material." https://lnkd.in/eKk_wMN View in LinkedIn

NANOCOATED WOOD FIBERS that "are electrically conductive for future smart paper technology, applied as sensors, communication devices, electromagnetic shields, paper-based displays", switches and more. https://lnkd.in/e2YaM-3 View in LinkedIn

SMART SKINS: "a ‘digital’ wall which we believe will replace the structural systems in the near future." https://lnkd.in/eT48VEN View in LinkedIn

NATURE IS ASYMMETRIC, or chirally-biased. Nature has clearly selected one of the mirror image forms of molecules for all life forms, but not the other mirror image. This charming review covers chirality in animals, shells, plants, and subatomic physics. https://lnkd.in/ewEX4X6 View in LinkedIn

PASTEUR (1848) was looking at some crystals of tartaric acid under the microscope, and observed that there were mirror-opposite types of crystals that when dissolved in solution rotated light in opposite directions. This was an act of pure curiosity. These observations led to a whole new field of chirality. https://lnkd.in/ewEX4X6 View in LinkedIn

KEY OBSERVATION. "L'univers est dissymétrique. Life as manifested to us is a function of the asymmetry of the universe, and of the consequences of this fact." (Pasteur). https://lnkd.in/ewEX4X6 View in LinkedIn

KEY PROPERTY. "Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking underpins a variety of areas such as subatomic physics and biochemistry and leads to an impressive range of fundamental phenomena." https://lnkd.in/e7ZujFy View in LinkedIn

KEY TO LIFE. "The principal polymers of life are composed of chiral stereoisomers. Amino acids of the L-configuration are polymerized into proteins, and the carbohydrate component of nucleic acids is of the D-configuration." https://lnkd.in/eF4tJP4 View in LinkedIn

KEY TO LIFE. "Chiral homogeneity in biology is a consequence of biosynthetic pathways which employ asymmetric enzyme catalysts with chiral binding sites." https://lnkd.in/eF4tJP4 View in LinkedIn