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3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice

Posted by kdawson on from the holy-grail dept.

An anonymous reader suggests an article over at ScienceDaily about the achievement of the holy grail of nanoscience: "[R]esearchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first time used DNA to guide the creation of three-dimensional, ordered, crystalline structures of nanoparticles. The ability to engineer such 3-D structures is essential to producing functional materials that take advantage of the unique properties that may exist at the nanoscale — for example, enhanced magnetism, improved catalytic activity, or new optical properties."

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  1. Bad Zoot! Naughty Zoot! by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you light the grail science-beacon on top of the castle? You must be punished!

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    1. Re:Bad Zoot! Naughty Zoot! by WilliamSChips · · Score: 2, Funny

      And thus, Galahad was saved from almost certain temptation.

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  2. wow! by rilister · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...so many cool words in one story... wow ...

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  3. Re:I, for one.... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pfft! In Soviet Russia, three-dimensional, crystalline nanoparticles grow on YOU!!!

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  4. a brief explanation of what this is all about by blogrdoc · · Score: 2, Funny

    a brief explanation of what this is all about:
    Intel and AMD spends billions of dollars to print 'tiny' lines. It's actually the *most* expensive and difficult part of the manufacturing process. Scientists now are trying to exploit the tiniest, most precise printing process that nature does routinely. By 'piggy backing' on DNA molecules, scientists/engineers can put materials where they want. Gold is not too interesting since it's just a conductor. But it's a start.

    Moreover, with the advances in organic semiconductors, the opportunities seem even more interesting.

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  5. Re:Why not? by Quadraginta · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to mention that if it dies from your neglect, you can be charged with murder, or at least animal abuse, and your neighbors start leaving dogshit on your doorstep after your face is on the evening news...next to the sad, shriveled corpse of the laptop...a bright promising life, cut cruelly short by a cranky abusive bastard...

  6. My PHD by EEPROMS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude just look at my thesis, it has magnetism, DNA and nanoparticles and to show off I threw in 3D-particles, Im definitely going to pass this year.