Organic Nanochemistry

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Design and synthesis of new organic and bioorganic compounds such as DNA conjugates which can assemble into functional nanostructures with applications in molecular electronics, biosensors, singlet oxygen formation and as new materials. Department of Chemistry and iNANO, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

 

 

  

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CDNA highlights

seemanSeminar by Ned Seeman

On Friday the 9th of October 2009 professor Ned Seeman visited CDNA to give an iNANO lecture on "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life". Ned Seeman pioneered the field of structural DNA nanotechnology by suggesting and demonstrating DNA as a building block for nanoscale science. His group at NYU continues to contribute major advances to the field, recently, nanomechanical devices, DNA walkers, and DNA crystals.

 

CDNA news

DNA-spiderMay 2010: DNA nano-spider published in Nature

CDNA collaborator Hao Yan publishes the paper "Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes". A molecular nanorobot dubbed a "spider" and labeled with green dyes traverses a substrate track built upon a DNA origami scaffold. It journeys towards its red-labeled goal by cleaving the visited substrates, thus exhibiting the characteristics of an autonomously moving, behavior-based robot at the molecular scale.

In the same issue of Nature DNA origami was used to create an assembly line for synthesizing gold nanoparticles.

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kjApril 2010: Kasper Jahn wins Rock n' Research

This year’s Researchers Grand Prix (nicknamed Rock’n Research) held in Lille Vega on Tuesday 20 April was won by Kasper Jahn, PhD student at iNANO and CDNA. 

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RNAMarch 2010: Tools for prediction and design

In a review article in New Biotechnology Ebbe Sloth Andersen describes the computer tools available for prediction and design of DNA and RNA structures.

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