POLYMERS Vol.66　No.3 March 2017

POLYMERS　Vol.66　No.3

COVER STORY
DNA as a Functional Polymer

DNA is a naturally-occurring polymer showing attractive chemical properties: DNA strictly recognizes sequences of complementary DNA, and spontaneously forms a double helix. Owing to the progress in organic chemistry, it is now possible to obtain DNA of designed sequences easily with extremely low costs. Therefore, DNA has been widely used not only as biopolymers but also as functional materials as represented by DNA Origami, DNA computers, drugs, aptamers, DNA enzymes, and so on. In this issue, we introduce pioneering studies using DNA as functional polymers. It is an attempt to explore possibilities of not only DNA but also synthetic polymers in the future.

Editors: KASHIDA, KOJIMA, SASAKI, and NUMATA

Digest for English Readers

102

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ

105

Commentary

Nucleic Acids Leading to Superfunctional Materials

Makoto KOMIYAMA

106

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews

DNA Origami	Takashi MORII	107
Unique Properties of DNA Brush Layers Formed on the Nanoparticles Surface	Naoki KANAYAMA, Mizuo MAEDA	110
Functions of Nucleic Acids with Non-canonical Structures : New Era of Post Watson-Crick Double Helix	Naoki SUGIMOTO	113

PolyMANGA

116

COVER STORY: Topics and Products

Single-Stranded Oligonucleotide	Hiroo IWATA	117
Control of pDNA Packaging and Utility as Gene Delivery System	Kensuke OSADA	119
Physical Properties of a Solid Film of Deoxyribonucleic Acid	Hisao MATSUNO, Keiji TANAKA	121

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account

A Researcher after a Musician

Tasuku NAKAJIMA

123

Messages: “Work and Life”

A Choice of Life to be a Researcher

Chiya NUMAKO

124

Front-Line Polymer Science

Biomaterial Properties Regulate Cell Adhesion

Tomoyuki AZUMA, Madoka TAKAI

125

From My Bookshelf

Yukio NAGASAKI / Yuji HIGAKI

130

Messages from SPSJ

131

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