Crystallization and cooperativity in dynamic supramolecular polymers (A03)

• Subject Area: Preparatory and Physical Chemistry of Polymers
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 189853844

We investigate the structure formation of biomimetic synthetic macromolecules from either the melt state or the solution state, aiming to understand folding and assembly principles between different segments of a polymer molecule. In the new funding period complex, artificial biomimetic elements will be synthesized by repetitive placement within a synthetic polymer chain, able to adopt specific conformations, dynamically changing from folded (e.g. α-helix, β- fold) to unfolded conformations. The proposed synthetic macromolecules are structurally placed between biological macromolecules and purely synthetic molecules, allowing to understand basic structure-formation and nucleation processes of partially unfolded macromolecules.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 102: Polymers under Multiple Constraints: Restricted and Controlled Molecular Order and Mobility
• Major Instrumentation: CDSpectrometer
• Applicant Institution: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Binder