{"489381":{"#nid":"489381","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Dynamic sensing at the nanoscale with DNA nanotechnology","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003ESchool of Physics Soft Condensed Matter \u0026amp; Biophysics: Prof. Michael Poirier, Ohio State University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDNA nanotechnology, especially scaffolded DNA origami, has emerged into a field that fabricates well-defined nanostructures with unprecedented geometric complexity and precision. This technology is proposed to eventually provide integral components for complex nanomachines and nanofactories. The power of DNA as a nanoscale building material is that it can be designed to self assemble into complex nanostructures that are held together by numerous \u003Cem\u003Ek\u003Csub\u003EB\u003C\/sub\u003ET\u003C\/em\u003E-scale (0.025 eV) interactions. This allows DNA-based structures to be both globally stable and locally dynamic. Currently, DNA nanotechnology has a number of applications, including drug delivery, single molecule sensing, and templating of crystalline nanoparticles. However, applications rely largely on \u003Cem\u003Estatic\u003C\/em\u003E nanomaterial properties. I will discuss the overall current state of the DNA nanotechnology field and our work on developing DNA based nanosensors, whose functionality relies on structural \u003Cem\u003Edynamics\u003C\/em\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dynamic sensing at the nanoscale with DNA nanotechnology"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2016-01-22 11:17:12","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:58","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-01-26T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-01-26T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-01-26T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-01-26 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-01-26 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-01-26 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"168230","name":"Dynamic sensing at the nanoscale with DNA nanotechnology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amorain@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamorain@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}