Template Polymerization

Polowinski S. Template Polymerization 1997 [pdf 146sc 150c. 2.00mb]

By borrowing from the techniques of biosynthesis, the emerging technology of template polymerization holds out the prospect of made-to-measure polymers with new levels of structural design and control. Just as the DNA in a living cell acts as a template for the proteins produced by the cell, so template polymerization techniques treat polymer precursors as templates on which the polymers are formed in a predetermined and controlled manner.