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nanosystems

Peptoids at the Molecular Foundry

December 1, 2008

Last week, I visited Ron Zuckerman at the Molecular Foundry to talk science, meet Ron’s colleagues, and give a seminar on directions for research in molecular system-building. I learned a lot, and the seminar topic seemed to be on-target for the lab, drawing an audience that packed the seminar room.

Peptide

Peptoid
Roughly speaking, ‘R’ = ‘whatever…’

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Nanoplasmonics

November 22, 2008

As discussed in a recent overview artlcle, optics meets nanotechnology in plasmonics, an emerging technology that exploits electromagnetic waves tightly coupled to metal surfaces.
Light can be coupled into and out of surface plasmons, in which free-space wavelengths of ~500 nm can be reduced by an order of magnitude and interact with waveguides, apertures, resonators (etc.) [...]

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Modular Molecular Composite Nanosystems

November 10, 2008

Framework-directed self assembly
Researchers have amassed a wonderful collection of functional, atomically precise components with potentially useful properties — optical, electronic, chemical, mechanical, and so on — but they haven’t been assembled to make complex, atomically precise nanosystems. I think of this as the “circuit-board problem”: Functional devices are small, simple, and may have interesting physics, [...]

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