First-of-their-kind images could aid in use of DNA to build nanoscale devices
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 04:00
in Physics & Chemistry
An international team working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has captured the first high-resolution 3-D images from individual double-helix DNA segments attached at either end to gold nanoparticles. The images detail the flexible structure of the DNA segments, which appear as nanoscale jump ropes.