Aaron Strickland: I get unpredictable velcro. I get velcro that sticks sometimes and I get velcro that just doesn’t seem to stick. And we’re trying to understand that.
Welcome to EarthSky’s Chronicles of a Science Experiment, Episode 7. We’re following Aaron Strickland, a Cornell University chemist specializing in nanotechnology – the science of the very small. He’s created a molecule of sugar he hopes will stick like velcro to a certain kind of protein – Aaron’s trying to mimic in the lab what nature does almost effortlessly on the surface of E. coli bacteria. But – so far – the velcro-like action of his sugar molecule has been, well, unpredictable.
Our thanks to Aaron Strickland, National Science Foundation Discovery Corps Fellow and Cornell University chemist. Carl Batt of Cornell created the concept for this program.
Made possible by the National Science Foundation
