Carbohydrate Materials Discovery: Towards a Post-Cellulosic Future
Abstract
Carbohydrates possess an incredible diversity of attractive properties, but they remain grosslyunderexplored as feedstock and precursors for preparing advanced materials. To realize the full potential of carbohydrates as feedstock for advanced materials and nanotechnologies, the means by which carbohydrate binding and hierarchical assembly are studied must be entirely reevaluated. The overarching goal of the proposed work will be to develop new methods for investigating the assembly, structure, and the materials properties of unique and reconstituted carbohydrate feedstock. The Specific Objectives towards this goal that will be accomplished during the project period are to: (1) Prepare unique glycomimetic array platforms to understand the relationship between glycan structure and carbohydrate recognition, (2) Develop a unique set of synthetic carbohydrate receptors to identify and bind monosaccharides in carbohydrate feedstock, and (3) alter the materials properties of a carbohydrate feedstock using additives developed in the context of Specific Objectives 1 & 2. By accomplishing these three goals, we hope to validate an entirely new approach to the discovery of carbohydrates that could be used as feedstock for advanced materials. The proposed work will benefit the DoD mission by exploring an entirely new class of renewable materials that could be used as cost-effective, renewable, and environmentally benign components in advanced materials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 11, 2017
- Source ID
- FA95501710356
Entities
People
- Adam B Braunschweig
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Research Foundation of The City University of New York
- United States Air Force