Charge Transport in single DNA-Based Molecules
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DNA is primarily and with no doubt the most important biological molecule. But its double-strand recognition, as well as the ability to control its sequence and manipulate its structure open a multitude of ways to make it useful for molecular electronics. Step by step we improve the synthesized constructs and the measurement methods of single DNA-based molecules. In this lecture I will report on our progress in producing and measuring DNA-based building blocks towards the construction of DNA-based programmable circuits.
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