| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S84248/01 |
| Title: |
Bio-Organics Nanostructuring for Molecular Electronics (BIONICS) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Friend, Professor Sir R |
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| Department: |
Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 2004 |
Ends: |
31 July 2007 |
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189,869
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Materials Synthesis & Growth |
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This project will bring together molecular biology and chemistry to construct new hybrid bio-organic macromolecules and nanostructures based on DNA networks. Binding between two complementary DNA-strands is a flexible and programmable specific molecular recognition process that can be employed on a synthetic scale. Macromolecules, such as conjugated oligomers or dendrimers, can be synthesised to have reactive functionalisations at multiple locations and a defined spatial shape spanning from the nm to the Om scale. We propose a rational protocol for the preparation of hybrid biorganic building blocks serving as star-shaped corner stones in a DNA-based architecture. Control over the functional groups of the building blocks ill enable programmed functional and structural changes to the assembled mesoscopic structures and will give access to planar or three-dimensional, sear, branched or reticulated structures. Space- and time-resolved fluorescence measurements on chromophore- containing architectures as well as tanning probe microscopy will grant insights into the physico-chemical properties of the building blocks and of the mesoscopic structures, necessary ,r the future development of new molecular (opto)electronic devices
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