Living Polymerization and block co-polymers and their affects on nanomedicine!
Presentation attempting to introduce ideas about how living polymerization can lead to chemists designing block co-polymers and their applications within nanomedicine.
See full list of references below:
http://www.blockcopolymers.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2678942/
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/smarter_planet/nanomedicine/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiphile
http://nanomedicine.unmc.edu/template_view.cfm?PageID=25
http://medconditions.net/pluronics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poloxamer
http://worldaccount.basf.com/wa/NAFTA~en_US/Catalog/ChemicalsNAFTA/pi/BASF/Brand/pluronic
http://research.uchicago.edu/highlights/resources/media/poloxamer_512k.mov
Presented by: Joseph Houghton
With thanks to:
Ben Cook for helping with the crackers and robot unicorn attack game play
My Mum for helping me thinking through some of the analogies.
Also I should really think of a more catchy title.....
Created by Joseph Houghton
Image accreditation to Google images
Copyright April 2011
University of York Chemistry
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