Wyatt Technology Corporation

Viruses are packets of infectious nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat consisting of a large number of protein subunits. Because viruses can cause various diseases - some life-threatening - characterizing virus particles thoroughly in terms of their size distribution, aggregation and absolute counts-per-unit volume is of extreme importance.

Our work focuses on the synthesis of branched (functionalized) polydienes via a facile two-step synthesis. Despite the numerous strategies developed for the preparation of branched polymers in recent years, there is still a limited number of simple synthetic strategies based on common vinyl monomers.