Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar Programmed Self-Assembly of Complex DNA Nanostructures and Applications in DNA Nanofabrication Cheng Tian Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh Friday, May 1, 2015 10:00 a.m. Bldg. 735 â€" Conference Room A This presentation focuses on the design and synthesis of complex DNA nanostructures and their applications in DNA nanofabrication. DNA has served as a superb building block to self-assemble into a wide range of predictable and robust nanostructures with the bottom-up method. Synthesized DNA nanostructures have been applied as templates for the organization of guest molecules and molecular lithography, biosensors for the genetic diagnosis and environmental detection, nanocarriers for the drug delivery therapy, and logic units for the DNA computation. My research focuses on the development of novel DNA building blocks, assembly strategies and simplified design systems to design and synthesize DNA nanostructures with a higher diversity and complexity, and applied DNA nanostructures as scaffolds to organize guest molecules and as templates for the nanopatterning.