Artificial Biomolecular Systems

New natural polymers based on synthesis from renewable resources, improved recyclability based on retrosynthesis to reusable precursors, and molecular suicide switches to initiate biodegradation on demand are the exciting areas in polymer science. In the area of biomolecular materials, new materials for implants with improved durability and biocompatibility, light-harvesting materials based on biomimicry of photosynthetic systems, and biosensors for analysis and artificial enzymes for bioremediation will present the breakthrough opportunities. Finally, in the field of electronics and photonics, the new challenges are molecular switches, transistors, and other electronic components molecular photoad-dressable memory devices and ferroelectrics and ferromagnets based on nonmetals. 

The next stage in the intracomplex ET study linked by noncovalent weak interactions should be the construction of a biomolecular assembly to understand highly ordered biological systems. This section focuses on artificially created ET models formed by molecular-recognition events on protein surfaces. The topics of native protein-protein... 

To decipher the interaction mechanisms of small and large anions with biomolecular interfaces, it is at least initially advantageous to look at a simplified system that captures the essential physics. With the risk of dismaying readers with a biochemical background, we will now construct an artificial bio-colloid — a simple nano-sphere with distributed cationic surface charges (see Fig. 4). While we do not claim that this toy-model is an adequate proxy for a real protein, it has some appealing advantages in that... 

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