DNA Nanotechnology

DNA nanotechnology is the design and manufacture of artificial nucleic acid structures for technical uses. In this field, nucleic acids are used as non-biological engineering materials for nanotechnology rather than as the carriers of genetic information in living cells. Researchers in the field have created static structures such as two- and three-dimensional crystal lattices, nanotubes, polyhedral, and arbitrary shapes, and functional devices such as molecular machines and DNA computers. The field is beginning to be used as a tool to solve basic science problems in structural biology and biophysics, including applications in X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of proteins to determine structures. Potential applications in molecular scale electronics and Nano medicine are also being investigated Properties of nucleic acids

 

  • Structural DNA nanotechnology
  • Dynamic DNA nanotechnology
  • Structural and Sequence designing
  • DNA origami
  • Three-dimensional arrays