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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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  2. 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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  3. 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.