Polymer mimics of biomacromolecular antifreezes

Caroline I. Biggs; Trisha L. Bailey; Ben Graham; Christopher Stubbs; Alice Fayter; Matthew I. Gibson

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01421-7

Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Polymer mimics of biomacromolecular antifreezes

Caroline I. Biggs,
Trisha L. Bailey,
Ben Graham,
Christopher Stubbs,
Alice Fayter,
Matthew I. Gibson

Affiliations

Caroline I. Biggs: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick
Trisha L. Bailey: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick
Ben Graham: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick
Christopher Stubbs: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick
Alice Fayter: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick
Matthew I. Gibson: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01421-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Ice crystal growth is a major problem in cell and tissue cryopreservation for transplantation, transfusion, icing of aircraft wings and many other applications. Here the authors review the emerging field of synthetic macromolecular mimics of antifreeze proteins that can be used overcome such problems.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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