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Nanoscale Optical And Correlative Microscopies For Quantitative Characterization Of Dna Nanostructures, Christopher Michael Green
Nanoscale Optical And Correlative Microscopies For Quantitative Characterization Of Dna Nanostructures, Christopher Michael Green
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Methods to engineer nanomaterials and devices with uniquely tailored properties are highly sought after in fields such as manufacturing, medicine, energy, and the environment. The macromolecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) enables programmable self-assembly of nanostructures with near arbitrary shape and size and with unprecedented precision and accuracy. Additionally, DNA can be chemically modified to attach molecules and nanoparticles, providing a means to organize active materials into devices with unique or enhanced properties. One particularly powerful form of DNA-based self-assembly, DNA origami, provides robust structures with the potential for nanometer-scale resolution of addressable sites. DNA origami are assembled from one large DNA …
Evaluating The Scalability Of Graphene Synthesis, Evan Dexter
Evaluating The Scalability Of Graphene Synthesis, Evan Dexter
Scholar Week 2016 - present
Graphene is a new material, first isolated in 2004, consisting of one to a few atomic layers of carbon in a lattice sheet structure. Graphene has high tensile strength, high surface area, very low electrical resistance, and various other special properties that make it an excellent material for use in emerging technologies in the categories of electrical components, energy systems, and high strength applications. The production scale of graphene sheets and its variations is currently limited to laboratory use, with a great amount of current research going into the development of manufacturing techniques of the material. I conducted experiments to …