Polymers: The Next Computing Revolution | Frank Leibfarth | TEDxUSD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 เม.ย. 2024
- Everything we have is made up of millions of molecules. We often look at these as things as scientists can only use and understand, but we also once thought this way about computers and now nearly every home has one. Frank Leibfarth, an MIT fellow, discusses how polymers could be the next computing revolution.
Frank grew up on the banks of the Missouri River in Yankton, South Dakota. He attended the University of South Dakota for his undergraduate education, majoring in both chemistry and physics and graduating summa cum laude in 2008. He began his graduate studies in chemistry in 2008 at University of California Santa Barbara under the direction of Prof. Craig J. Hawker. At UCSB, Frank developed simple yet powerful methods that improve the properties and function of plastic surfaces.
In 2013 Frank received his Ph.D. and moved to Boston where he began working as an NSF funded postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Timothy F. Jamison at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, Frank is building machines that will automate the synthesis of complex molecules. These technologies hold revolutionary potential to remove chemical synthesis as a bottleneck for scientists working in diverse fields such as medicinal chemistry, nanotechnology, polymer science, and cancer therapy.
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I lost so many points in biochemistry lab because I never figured out how to draw the mechanism for the protecting group.
How would you explain polymers to somebody who isn't allowed to possess a computer or step foot in a laboratory?
Imagine not having a computer at your house. I used to work with a guy who hasn't owned a computer in over ten years and he's a lot more of a valuable employee than I am.
Our colleagues at MIT our colleagues at MIT our colleagues at MIT
I haven't seen chemists change the way they think in a very long time now.
exactly
This dude needs to get offline. Imagine having all of those technical terms in your brain because you were given the opportunity to learn those lessons at the expense of other people.
Nice
Most dudes don't even think about the mechanical properties of their toothbrush.
did he just say Lego(s) with an 'S'?!
take off 5 geek points.