Challenge

Build Stacks & Chains

Patent diagram of two methods of manufacturing tetrapak packaging containers
Two methods of manufacturing Tetrapak packaging containers invented by Erik Berglund from the patent dated 1963. Image from patent US3090175A

Build repeated units connected together.

  • What are monomers and polymers?
  • How does molecular chain length affect the physical properties of the material?
  • What are branching chains? What properties do they have?
  • How is nylon made? How does its chain structure create useful properties?
  • Who are Linus Pauling, Hermann Staudinger, and Paul Flory? What did they discover about chain molecules?
  • How many degrees of freedom do your chain models have? What affects this?
  • How do protein chains fold? What shapes can they form?

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