DNA nanotechnology produces precision nanostructures of defined chemistry. Expanding their use in biomedicine requires designed biomolecular interaction and function. Of topical interest are that function as vaccines with potential advantages over nonstructured nucleic acids terms serum stability selective human immune cells. Here, we describe how compact nanobarrels bind a 400-fold selectivity...

The interaction of microorganisms with stone materials leads to biodeterioration processes, which may cause aesthetic damages and the loss durability strength substrates. Innovative solutions against this process are represented by nanotechnologies. In our previous works, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole was successfully encapsulated within two silica-based nanodevices: nanocapsules mesoporous nanoparti...

The well-known reactive diuretic ethacrynic acid (EA, Edecrin), with low antiproliferative activities, was chemically modified and grafted onto phosphorus dendrimers and the corresponding simple branched phosphorus dendron-like derivatives affording novel nanodevices showing moderate to strong antiproliferative activities against liquid and solid tumor cell lines, respectively.

1 The School of Physics and The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland 2 Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada M5T 2S8 3 Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France 4 Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, 4056...

Here, a pH-induced nanomechanical switching of i-motif structures incorporated into DNA origami bound onto cysteamine-modified basal plane HOPG was electronically addressed, demonstrating for the first time the electrochemical read-out of the nanomechanics of DNA origami. This paves the way for construction of electrode-integrated bioelectronic nanodevices exploiting DNA origami patterns on con...

We present a method for directly analyzing photonic nanodevices and apply it to photonic crystal cavities. Two-dimensional photonic crystals are scanned and reproduced in computer memory for Finite Difference Time Domain simuations. The results closely match experimental observations, with a fidelity far beyond that for idealized structures. This analysis allows close examination of error mecha...

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Another brick in the wall: DNA nanotechnology has come a long way since its initial beginnings. This would not be possible without the continued development of methods for DNA assembly and new uses for DNA as a material. This Special Issue highlights some of the newest building blocks for nanodevices based on DNA.

Aligned Carbon Nanotubes For Multifunctional Nanocomposites and Nanodevices L Dai, L Qu (Univ of Dayton) We have previously developed a simple pyrolytic method for large-scale production of aligned carbon nanotube arrays perpendicular to the substrate. These aligned carbon nanotube arrays can be transferred onto various substrates of particular interest in either a patterned or non-patterned fa...