Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used Hummingbird Scientific’s Tomography holder to demonstrate the new assembly technique, “cylindrical confinement” for 3D self-assemblies of nanoparticles. The results have been published in Nano Letters.
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Direct assembly of nanosized building blocks into a functional entity has been a great challenge, especially for DNA templating which requires aqueous solution. Here , the researchers were able to use Hummingbird Scientific’s Tomography holder to observe 3D cylindrical confinement of nanoparticles and their self-assemblies into stacked rings and single and double helices.
Reference: Peter Bai, Sui Yang, Wei Bao, Joseph Kao, Kari Thorkelsson, Miquel Salmeron, Xiang Zhang, and Ting Xu. “Diversifying Nanoparticle Assemblies in Supramolecule Nanocomposites Via Cylindrical Confinement,” Nano Letters (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03131
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