Tasty new molecular sandwiches

Forgive the lengthy background, I'm trying to ease the non-scientific reader into the paper I mentioned a the beginning of this blog post. Titled "Free-floating ultrathin two-dimensional crystals from sequence-specific peptoid polymers," this paper comes from Ron Zuckermann's group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. The Zuckermann group has long been investigating the structure and function of a type of polymer referred to as 'peptoid'. These peptoid polymers are closely related to proteins in terms of the type of building blocks used. More>