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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. The circle is complete by Corpuscavernosa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DNA structure deduced from crystallography, now crystals formed in DNA lattice. Kind of fun how that worked out.

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