U.S.-Argentina Planning Visit: Strategic Planning for Collaborative Research on Bioinspired Photopolymers

0556272华纳这次计划访问将允许博士。马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校的约翰·c·华纳、艾米·坎农和索菲亚·特拉赫滕贝格，将与阿根廷圣达菲的同行们会面，他们的同行由阿根廷工业技术研究所（INTEC）的戴安娜·a·埃斯特诺斯博士领导，共同开发和协调一项关于绿色化学的合作研究项目，特别是研究胸胸酸基光聚合物。合成方法和涂层策略已经开发，允许制备各种各样的结构和形态变化的含胸腺嘧啶聚合物。美国团队是唯一一个研究这种聚合物家族的研究小组，其中胸腺嘧啶残留物被纳入水溶性苯乙烯共聚物中。阿根廷团队在聚合物体系的数学建模和表征方面具有专业知识。双方的合作将提供对这些光聚合物系统的更好的机制理解，从而允许设计更高效和专门定制的材料。这次访问将有助于制定具体的研究计划，优化两个地点的能力。

0556272WarnerThis planning visit will allow Drs. John C. Warner, Amy Cannon, and Sofia Trakhtenberg, University of Massachusetts Lowell, to meet with their counterparts in Santa Fe, Argentina, led by Dr. Diana A. Estenoz, Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnologico para la Industria Quimica (INTEC), to develop and coordinate a collaborative research project on green chemistry, specifically working with thymine-based photopolymers.Synthetic methodologies and coating strategies have been developed that allow for the preparation of a wide variety of structural and morphological variations of thymine-containing polymers. The U.S. team is the only research group working with this family of polymers, where thymine residues are incorporated into water soluble styrene copolymers. The Argentine team has expertise in the mathematical modeling and characterization of polymeric systems. Collaboration between the two sides would provide a better mechanistic understanding of these photopolymer systems so as to allow the design of more efficient and specifically tailored materials. This visit will allow for a specific research plan to be developed, optimizing capacities at both sites.