UT Chemistry Researchers Encode Jane Austen Quote in a Polymer

April 20, 2021 • by Amanda Figueroa-Nieves

The technique, which relies on short polymers called oligourethanes, encodes information with greater density than DNA-based approaches

Illustration of a book showing how to translate chemical components of a polymer into English letters

A quote from Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park written in oligourethanes. Image credit: Sarah Moor.


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