Infrared emitting quantum dots: DNA conjugation and DNA origami directed self-assembly

Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 4486-4490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anirban Samanta ◽  
Zhengtao Deng ◽  
Yan Liu

DNA conjugation of infrared emitting hydrophilic QDs and their organization site specifically onto DNA nanostructure.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Green ◽  
David A. Hastman ◽  
Divita Mathur ◽  
Kimihiro Susumu ◽  
Igor L. Medintz ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (07) ◽  
pp. 2050041
Author(s):  
Ada Morse ◽  
William Adkisson ◽  
Jessica Greene ◽  
David Perry ◽  
Brenna Smith ◽  
...  

Motivated by problem of determining the unknotted routes for the scaffolding strand in DNA origami self-assembly, we examine the existence and knottedness of A-trails in graphs embedded on the torus. We show that any A-trail in a checkerboard-colorable torus graph is unknotted and characterizes the existence of A-trails in checkerboard-colorable torus graphs in terms of pairs of quasitrees in associated embeddings. Surface meshes are frequent targets for DNA nanostructure self-assembly, and so we study both triangular and rectangular torus grids. We show that aside from one exceptional family, a triangular torus grid contains an A-trail if and only if it has an odd number of vertices, and that such an A-trail is necessarily unknotted. On the other hand, while every rectangular torus grid contains an unknotted A-trail, we also show that any torus knot can be realized as an A-trail in some rectangular grid. Lastly, we use a gluing operation to construct infinite families of triangular and rectangular grids containing unknotted A-trails on surfaces of arbitrary genus. We also give infinite families of triangular grids containing no unknotted A-trail on surfaces of arbitrary nonzero genus.


Author(s):  
Prashant Malik ◽  
Neha Gulati ◽  
Raj Kaur Malik ◽  
Upendra Nagaich

Nanotechnology deal with the particle size in nanometers. Nanotechnology is ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to direct control of matter on the atomic scale. In nanotechnology mainly three types of nanodevices are described: carbon nanotubes, quantum dots and dendrimers. It is a recent technique used as small size particles to treat many diseases like cancer, gene therapy and used as diagnostics. Nanotechnology used to formulate targeted, controlled and sustained drug delivery systems. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology embraces applications of nanoscience to pharmacy as nanomaterials and as devices like drug delivery, diagnostic, imaging and biosensor materials. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology has provided more fine tuned diagnosis and focused treatment of disease at a molecular level.    


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Johnson ◽  
Vasiliki Kolliopoulos ◽  
Carlos E. Castro

We demonstrate co-self-assembly of two distinct DNA origami structures with a common scaffold strand through programmable bifurcation of folding pathways.


Author(s):  
Zheng Xing ◽  
Kaituo Dong ◽  
Nick G Pavlopoulos ◽  
Yuexing Chen ◽  
Lilac Amirav

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Tuktamyshev ◽  
Alexey Fedorov ◽  
Sergio Bietti ◽  
Stefano Vichi ◽  
Riccardo Tambone ◽  
...  

AbstractWe investigated the nucleation of Ga droplets on singular GaAs(111)A substrates in the view of their use as the seeds for the self-assembled droplet epitaxial quantum dots. A small critical cluster size of 1–2 atoms characterizes the droplet nucleation. Low values of the Hopkins-Skellam index (as low as 0.35) demonstrate a high degree of a spatial order of the droplet ensemble. Around $$350\,^{\circ }\hbox {C}$$ 350 ∘ C the droplet size distribution becomes bimodal. We attribute this observation to the interplay between the local environment and the limitation to the adatom surface diffusion introduced by the Ehrlich–Schwöbel barrier at the terrace edges.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Smith ◽  
Verena Schüller ◽  
Carsten Forthmann ◽  
Robert Schreiber ◽  
Philip Tinnefeld ◽  
...  

Nanometer-sized polyhedral wire-frame objects hold a wide range of potential applications both as structural scaffolds as well as a basis for synthetic nanocontainers. The utilization of DNA as basic building blocks for such structures allows the exploitation of bottom-up self-assembly in order to achieve molecular programmability through the pairing of complementary bases. In this work, we report on a hollow but rigid tetrahedron framework of 75 nm strut length constructed with the DNA origami method. Flexible hinges at each of their four joints provide a means for structural variability of the object. Through the opening of gaps along the struts, four variants can be created as confirmed by both gel electrophoresis and direct imaging techniques. The intrinsic site addressability provided by this technique allows the unique targeted attachment of dye and/or linker molecules at any point on the structure's surface, which we prove through the superresolution fluorescence microscopy technique DNA PAINT.


2003 ◽  
pp. 2278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Tang ◽  
Henrik Birkedal ◽  
Eric W. McFarland ◽  
Galen D. Stucky

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