Precision-Engineered Polymer Nanomaterials

设计与生物系统相互作用或模拟生物系统的聚合物纳米颗粒代表了聚合物科学领域的挑战。该项目将应对这一挑战，提供定量和定性的理解，将合成材料和生物系统联系起来。使用突破性合成方法和动力学和计算机建模制备的结构完美的聚合物树枝状大分子是以可预测的行为引入这种功能的理想结构。该项目将对全球社区和行业产生切实影响，包括开发用于智能药物输送设备和肽模拟物的仿生纳米设备。

Designing polymer nanoparticles that interact with or mimic biological systems represents a challenge in the field of polymer science. The project will address this challenge to deliver a quantitative and qualitative understanding linking synthetic materials and biological systems. Structurally perfect polymeric dendrimers, prepared using break through synthetic approaches and kinetic and computer modelling, are the ideal structure to introduce this function with predictable behaviour. The project will achieve tangible impacts for global communities and industries including the development of biomimetic nanodevices for smart drug delivery devices and peptide mimics.