{"id":180958,"date":"2024-01-20T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/dna-becomes-our-hands-to-construct-advanced-polyhedral-nanoparticles"},"modified":"2024-01-20T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T18:23:20","slug":"dna-becomes-our-hands-to-construct-advanced-polyhedral-nanoparticles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/dna-becomes-our-hands-to-construct-advanced-polyhedral-nanoparticles","title":{"rendered":"DNA becomes our \u2018hands\u2019 to construct advanced polyhedral nanoparticles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-becomes-our-hands-to-construct-advanced-polyhedral-nanoparticles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adj1021\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i> Jan. 18, scientists Chad Mirkin and Sharon Glotzer and their teams at Northwestern University and University of Michigan, respectively, present findings in nanotechnology that could impact the way advanced materials are made.<\/p>\n<p>The paper describes a significant leap forward in assembling polyhedral <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoparticles<\/a>. The researchers introduce and demonstrate the power of a novel synthetic strategy that expands possibilities in metamaterial design. These are the unusual materials that underpin \u201cinvisibility cloaks\u201d and ultrahigh-speed optical computing systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe manipulate macroscale materials in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/everyday+life\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">everyday life<\/a> using our hands,\u201d said Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at the Weinberg College of Arts and <i>Science<\/i>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in Science Jan. 18, scientists Chad Mirkin and Sharon Glotzer and their teams at Northwestern University and University of Michigan, respectively, present findings in nanotechnology that could impact the way advanced materials are made. The paper describes a significant leap forward in assembling polyhedral nanoparticles. The researchers introduce and demonstrate the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}