Nano Academic » dna http://www.nanoacademic.com Nanotechnology Information Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:34:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 DuPont News: July 17, 2009 http://www.nanoacademic.com/dupont-news-july-17-2009-1767.htm http://www.nanoacademic.com/dupont-news-july-17-2009-1767.htm#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00:01 +0000 admin http://www.nanoacademic.com/dupont-news-july-17-2009-1767.htm DuPont News: July 17, 2009

DuPont and Lehigh University scientists have refined a technique, first published in 2003, to sort carbon nanotubes using specific sequences of DNA. … Atomic force microscope (AFM) image of a carbon nanotube wrapped with DNA. …

 
DuPont News: July 17, 2009

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The Nature article is titled “DNA sequence motifs for structure-specific recognition and separation of carbon nanotubes .” Its authors are Ming Zheng, Xiaomin Tu, Anand Jagota and Suresh Manohar. Zheng and Tu are scientists with DuPont …

 
DNA brings Carbon Nanotubes' Promise Closer to Reality

]]> http://www.nanoacademic.com/dna-brings-carbon-nanotubes-promise-closer-to-reality-1763.htm/feed 0 Next Big Future: Improved DNA Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes http://www.nanoacademic.com/next-big-future-improved-dna-sorting-of-carbon-nanotubes-1755.htm http://www.nanoacademic.com/next-big-future-improved-dna-sorting-of-carbon-nanotubes-1755.htm#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:11:00 +0000 admin http://www.nanoacademic.com/next-big-future-improved-dna-sorting-of-carbon-nanotubes-1755.htm Next Big Future: Improved DNA Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are a family of molecules that have the same cylindrical shape but different chiralities. Many fundamental studies and technological applications of SWNTs require a population of tubes with …

 
Next Big Future: Improved DNA Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes

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Short strings of synthetic DNA wind onto nanotubes in a very sequence-dependent way, which has allowed researchers to separate 12 of the most common types of tubes from the inevitable mixtures that form when nanotubes are synthesised. …

 
DNA sorts out carbon nanotubes

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A team of researchers from DuPont and Lehigh University has reported a breakthrough in the quest to produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are suitable for use in electronics, medicine and other applications.

 
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]]> http://www.nanoacademic.com/featured-article-researchers-enlist-dna-to-bring-carbon-1749.htm/feed 0 Tailored sequences of DNA lead to breakthrough in the campaign to … http://www.nanoacademic.com/tailored-sequences-of-dna-lead-to-breakthrough-in-the-campaign-to-1720.htm http://www.nanoacademic.com/tailored-sequences-of-dna-lead-to-breakthrough-in-the-campaign-to-1720.htm#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:05:20 +0000 admin http://www.nanoacademic.com/tailored-sequences-of-dna-lead-to-breakthrough-in-the-campaign-to-1720.htm Tailored sequences of DNA lead to breakthrough in the campaign to …

Tailored sequences of DNA lead to breakthrough in the campaign to sort and separate carbon nanotubes .

 
Tailored sequences of DNA lead to breakthrough in the campaign to …

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A team of researchers from DuPont and Lehigh University has reported a breakthrough in the quest to produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are suitable for use in electronics, medicine and other applications. In an article published in …

 
Researchers enlist DNA to bring carbon nanotubes' promise closer …

]]> http://www.nanoacademic.com/researchers-enlist-dna-to-bring-carbon-nanotubes-promise-closer-1718.htm/feed 0 Gold Rimmed…DNA Nanotubes http://www.nanoacademic.com/gold-rimmeddna-nanotubes-1548.htm http://www.nanoacademic.com/gold-rimmeddna-nanotubes-1548.htm#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:30:21 +0000 admin http://www.nanoacademic.com/gold-rimmeddna-nanotubes-1548.htm Gold Rimmed…DNA Nanotubes

What could possibly be the point of creating gold-rimmed DNA molecules that roll into nanotubes ? In January, researchers from Arizona State University and The Scripps Research Institute reported in the journal Science that they had …

 
Gold Rimmed…DNA Nanotubes

]]> http://www.nanoacademic.com/gold-rimmeddna-nanotubes-1548.htm/feed 0 DNA Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes for Tissue Replacement http://www.nanoacademic.com/next-big-future-dna-wrapped-carbon-nanotubes-for-tissue-replacement-1502.htm http://www.nanoacademic.com/next-big-future-dna-wrapped-carbon-nanotubes-for-tissue-replacement-1502.htm#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 23:02:00 +0000 admin http://www.nanoacademic.com/next-big-future-dna-wrapped-carbon-nanotubes-for-tissue-replacement-1502.htm Next Big Future: DNA Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes for Tissue Replacement

Tough and soft: Highly porous, spongelike materials self-assemble by calcium ion condensation of DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes (SWNTs-DNA; see picture, IL=ionic liquid). The toughness, modulus, and swellability of the electrically …

 
Next Big Future: DNA Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes for Tissue Replacement

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As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it consists of a robust network of DNA strands and carbon nanotubes (”Tough Supersoft Sponge Fibers with Tunable Stiffness from a DNA Self-Assembly Technique”). …

 
Soft and tough like biological tissue: DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes

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