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Cover Picture: DNA-Templated Silver Nanorings (Adv. Mater. 23/2005)

✍ Scribed by A. A. Zinchenko; K. Yoshikawa; D. Baigl


Book ID
101415573
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
155 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0935-9648

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

The cover shows that toroidal condensates of duplex DNA can be used as templates for facile preparation of monodisperse nanorings of noble metals. In the work by Zinchenko and co‐workers, reported on p. 2820, conformational transition of long DNA chains from elongated coils into compact toroidal condensates changes the manner of reduced silver deposition, from DNA chain metallization with nanoparticles to the formation of silver rings. A one‐pot, three‐step, simple preparation method leads to formation of well‐defined monodisperse silver nanorings (100 nm in diameter) dispersed in water.