{"id":21636,"date":"2016-02-04T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T05:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/dna-used-to-assemble-nanoparticles-into-a-copy-of-the-crystalline-structure-of-diamond"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:35:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:35:34","slug":"dna-used-to-assemble-nanoparticles-into-a-copy-of-the-crystalline-structure-of-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/dna-used-to-assemble-nanoparticles-into-a-copy-of-the-crystalline-structure-of-diamond","title":{"rendered":"DNA used to assemble nanoparticles into a copy of the crystalline structure of diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-used-to-assemble-nanoparticles-into-a-copy-of-the-crystalline-structure-of-diamond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building building diamond lattices through DNA.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Using bundled strands of DNA to build Tinkertoy-like tetrahedral cages, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a way to trap and arrange nanoparticles in a way that mimics the crystalline structure of diamond. The achievement of this complex yet elegant arrangement, as described in a paper published February 5, 2016, in Science, may open a path to new materials that take advantage of the optical and mechanical properties of this crystalline structure for applications such as optical transistors, color-changing materials, and lightweight yet tough materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe solved a 25-year challenge in building diamond lattices in a rational way via self-assembly,\u201d said Oleg Gang, a physicist who led this research at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven Lab in collaboration with scientists from Stony Brook University, Wesleyan University, and Nagoya University in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists employed a technique developed by Gang that uses fabricated DNA as a building material to organize nanoparticles into 3D spatial arrangements. They used ropelike bundles of double-helix DNA to create rigid, three-dimensional frames, and added dangling bits of single-stranded DNA to bind particles coated with complementary DNA strands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/02\/dna-used-to-assemble-nanoparticles-into.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building building diamond lattices through DNA. Using bundled strands of DNA to build Tinkertoy-like tetrahedral cages, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a way to trap and arrange nanoparticles in a way that mimics the crystalline structure of diamond. The achievement of this complex yet elegant arrangement, as described [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1635,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-materials","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51079,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636\/revisions\/51079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}