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- Title
Nanomaterials: Golden handshake.
- Authors
Crocker, John C.
- Abstract
The article discusses the potential application of three-dimensional nanoparticles arrays assembled through the transient pairings of complementary DNA strands. Two researches have been conducted in order to build successes with DNA to aid the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles. These revealed that particles which carry complementary strands of DNA adhere to each other when these strands hybridize to form the familiar DNA double helix. These then disclose that the nanospheres were rapidly guided as the DNA strands hybridized. The result of such response, accordingly, is a crystal that has body-centered-cubic crystal symmetry.
- Subjects
DNA; NANOPARTICLES; SYMMETRY (Biology); NUCLEIC acids; MOLECULAR genetics; NUCLEIC acid hybridization; MOLECULAR self-assembly; RESEARCH; PARTICLES
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 451, Issue 7178, p528
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/451528a