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Using Life's Building Blocks to Control Nanoparticle Assembly

08-22-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

Using DNA, researchers at Brookhaven are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly and the structure of resulting nanoclusters. Learning how to control the assembly of nanoparticles could lead to applications from more efficient energy generation to cell-targeted systems for drug delivery.

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