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Chemistry
Team solves a nearly 200-year-old challenge in polymers, allowing independent control of stiffness and stretchability
Collapsible Bottlebrush An artistic representation of a network formed by cross-linking polymers, featuring a folded backbone to which many flexible linear side chains are grafted. Credit: Liheng Cai, Baiqiang Huang/Soft Biomatter Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Virginia Researchers at the University of Virginia’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a new polymer design that…
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Chemistry
Machine learning solves protein folding problem and wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for using machine learning to tackle one of biology’s biggest challenges: predicting the 3D shape of proteins and designing them from scratch. , honored David Baker. This year’s awards were notable because they celebrated research originating from technology companies, namely DeepMind, an AI research startup…
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