Designer Materials from Nanoparticles (IMAGE)

Iowa State University

Designer Materials from Nanoparticles

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This image shows a crystal of nanoparticles (the red and blue spheres) held together by DNA strands (the orange lines) via the hybridization of complementary sequences (the blue and red rings).

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Image courtesy of Chris Knorowski/Iowa State University/Ames Laboratory

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