DNA speeds up nanoparticle assembly
October 12, 2006 | Source: KurzweilAI
The speed of nanoparticle assembly can be accelerated by using the self-assembling properties of DNA, Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have found.
Synthetic DNA is capped onto individual gold nanoparticles and customized to recognize and bind to complementary DNA located on other particles. This process forms clusters of gold particles.