Frustrations in polymer conformation in gels and their minimization through molecular imprinting.

Takashi Enoki,1 Kazunori Tanaka,1 Tsuyoshi Watanabe,1 Taro Oya,1 Takaharu Sakiyama,1 Yukikazu Takeoka,1 Kenji Ito,1 Guoqiang Wang,1 Masahiko Annaka,1 Kazuhiro Hara,1 Rose Du,1 Jeffrey Chuang,1 Kevin Wasserman,1 Alexander Yu. Grosberg,2 Satoru Masamune,3 and Toyoichi Tanaka1 1Department of Physics and Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 2Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 3Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (Received 28 January 2000)