Research lead
Jens Müller from the Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry at TU Dortmund, has used artificial DNA as a key structural element for the arrangement of metal ions, a technique that could be applied to construct nanoscale molecular wires, magnets and in-body sensors.
During a five year project Muller and his colleagues have succeeded in generating numerous such metal-ion-mediated base pairs, and claim they now know how to precisely influence the characteristics of the artificial metallised DNA.
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