ABSTRACT
Chemistry is moving to center stage in many areas of medicine, biology, engineering, and physics. While solid-state physics is traditionally based on silicon, polymers offer a much wider vista of opportunities for application and fine-tuning those applications. Some areas are based on single crystals that may be small in our sight, but are large when compared to individual molecules. Even single silicon wafers with a minimum pattern dimension of 200 nm is on the order of ten times the size of individual molecules. Eventually, electronic, photonic, and stress-strain behavior individuality can be placed into single giant chains, creating chains that behave as entire assemblies behave today.
