Research

🥼 Research Topics

🐣 Biomimicry with minimal molecular designs: With our expertise in synthesizing designer monomers and polymers, we create customized, protein-mimetic polymers.

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Narayanan Lab live-cell confocal microscopy facility

🧬 Interfacing the synthetic polymers with biomacromolecules: By coupling polymer chemistry with molecular biology, we manipulate the molecular interactions in mesoscopic biomolecular assemblies.

Narayanan Lab chemical synthesis laboratory. This where the magic begins.

Narayanan Lab cell culture facility

🔬 Quantitative biophysics: We develop experimentally-driven physicochemical frameworks for the molecular-structure-function landscape of synthetic polymer-biological assembly interactions.

Narayanan Lab molecular and microbiology facility