Statistical Mechanics and Computation of DNA Self-Assembly

Session

Synthesis

5

28 May 2011, 09:00

Hotel Arkipelag, Mariehamn, Finland

266. Growth of arbitrarily shaped metal nanoparticles templated by DNA origami

Prof. Tim Liedl (LMU München)

28/05/2011, 09:15

The directed metallization of DNA origami nanostructures could give rise to self-assembling materials with novel optical and electronic properties. We show that three-dimensional (3D) DNA origami structures can be converted into gold nanoparticles of designed shapes by a two- step metallization process: Positively charged 1.4 nm gold nanoclusters adsorb to the negatively charged...

267. Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA: Theory and Experiment

Prof. Erik Winfree (Caltech)

28/05/2011, 10:30

Self-assembly is a fundamental process in the self-organization of biological as well as non-biological structures. Passive self-assembly of molecular units, being driven just by thermodynamic binding energies and the geometrical structure of the molecules, would seem to be the simplest case to study -- but it can be remarkably complicated. In fact, in a model of generalized...

255. Dynamical nanosystems made from DNA, RNA, and occasionally a few other components

Prof. Friedrich Simmel (TU Munchen)

28/05/2011, 11:15

The highly predictable interactions between DNA or RNA molecules have been utilized for the construction of a large variety of molecular structures and devices. For instance, the recently developed DNA origami technique facilitates the molecular assembly of two- and even three-dimensional nano-objects with almost arbitrary shape - and with nanometric precision. These structures can be...