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Do you spend your day running HPLC or other lengthy column chromatography to purify your proteins or other biological entities? The development of affinity capture devices—a nanoscale purification platform for biological in situ transmission electron microscopy
Katherine Degen , Madeline Dukes , Justin R. Tanner and Deborah F. Kelly
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01163H
Below is a list of recently published articles involving nucleic acids:
Synthetic 5′-phosphorylated oligodeoxynucleotide purification through catching full-length sequences by polymerization
Yinan Yuan, Suntara Fueangfung, Xi Lin, Durga Pokharel and Shiyue Fang
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01357F, Paper
Label-free detection of target DNA sequence and single-base mismatch in hepatitis C virus corresponding to oligonucleotide by resonance light scattering technique
Zhanguang Chen, Sihua Qian, Xi Chen, Junhui Chen, Yuejuan Lin and Jinbin Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01141G, Paper
Synthesis, characterization and DNA binding properties of rutin–iron complex
Stalin Selvaraj, Sridharan Krishnaswamy, Venkappayya Devashya, Swaminathan Sethuraman and Uma Maheswari Krishnan
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01319C, Paper
Base recognition by L-nucleotides in heterochiral DNA
Shuji Ogawa, Shun-ichi Wada and Hidehito Urata
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01013E, Communication
Printed conductive features for DNA chip applications prepared on PET without sintering
Albert R. Liberski, Joseph T. Delaney, Aleksandra Liberska, Jolke Perelaer, Martha Schwarz, Thomas Schüler, Robert Möller and Ulrich S. Schubert
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01191C, Paper
Co-delivery of genes and drugs with nanostructured calcium carbonate for cancer therapy
Si Chen, Dong Zhao, Feng Li, Ren-Xi Zhuo and Si-Xue Cheng
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00527H, Paper
Highly flexible and stable aptamer-caged nanoparticles for control of thrombin activity
Chia-Lun Hsu, Shih-Chun Wei, Jyun-Wei Jian, Huan-Tsung Chang, Wei-Hsi Chen and Chih-Ching Huang
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1577-1584
Nanoporous carbon as a sensing platform for DNA detection: The use of impedance spectroscopy for hairpin-DNA based assay
Hwee Ling Poh, Alessandra Bonanni and Martin Pumera
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1021-1024
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00812A, Paper
A pyridyl carboxamide molecule selectively stabilizes DNA G-quadruplex and regulates duplex–quadruplex competition
Liang Xu, Weixin Wu, Jie Ding, Shuo Feng, Xiwen Xing, Minggang Deng and Xiang Zhou
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 894-899
Protein–dendron conjugates for DNA binding: understanding the effect of the protein core on multivalency
Giovanni M. Pavan, Mauri A. Kostiainen and Andrea Danani
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1677-1681
Fast repair of DNA radicals in the earliest stage of carcinogenesis suppresses hallmarks of cancer
Rongliang Zheng, Zhongjian Jia, Ji Li, Shuangsheng Huang, Ping Mu, Fangxin Zhang, Chunming Wang and Chengshan Yuan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1610-1619
DNA hybridization of pathogenicity island of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis with discretely functionalized gold nanoparticles in organic solvent mixtures
Chun-Pong Chak, Josie M. Y. Lai, Kathy W. Y. Sham, Christopher H. K. Cheng and Ken Cham-Fai Leung
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1342-1348
Detection of single-stranded nucleic acids by hybridization of probe oligonucleotides on polystyrene nanospheres and subsequent release and recovery of fluorescence
Lei Wang, Hailong Li, Yonglan Luo, Yingwei Zhang, Jingqi Tian and Xuping Sun
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1318-1323
Large-scale synthesis of coordination polymer microdendrites and their application as a sensing platform for fluorescent DNA detection
Hailong Li, Junfeng Zhai and Xuping Sun
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 725-730
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00359C, Paper
Control of synthesis and optical properties of DNA templated silver nanoclusters by varying DNA length and sequence
Guo-Yu Lan, Wei-Yu Chen and Huan-Tsung Chang
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 802-807
A novel application of porphyrin nanoparticles as an effective fluorescent assay platform for nucleic acid detection
Junfeng Zhai, Hailong Li and Xuping Sun
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 36-39
Target-induced biomolecular release for sensitive aptamer-based electrochemical detection of small molecules from magnetic graphene
Dianping Tang, Juan Tang, Qunfang Li, Bingqian Liu, Huanghao Yang and Guonan Chen
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 40-43
All the above articles are free to access if you register by December 2012.
Aptamers are single-stranded oligonucleotides that fold into 3-D structures to specifically bind targets such as ions, small biological organic or inorganic molecules. Previously, it has been shown that thrombin binding aptamers (TBA) have good anticoagulant activity with high-affinity, non-immunogenicity, and non-toxicity.
In a recently published RSC Advances article, Huang et al. show that multivalent TBA bound to gold nanoparticles have 10000 times higher binding affinity than TBA15 (thrombin binding aptamer containing 15 bases). The anticoagulant activity of multivalent TBA-gold nanoparticles is reported to be extremely high, even better than the commercial drugs, argatroban and hirudin.
Moreover, the authors have also developed a photocleavable (PC) version of the multivalent TBA-gold nanoparticles. Upon irradiation with near UV light (365 nm), the 2-nitrobenzyl PC linker of the terminal-modified TBA can be cleaved resulting in the reversal of thrombin activity. The authors are confident that the light-controllable anticoagulant drug will be potentially useful in biomedical aplications.
“We believe that our described technique can be widely used to modify nanoparticles with other DNA or RNA aptamers for different proteins or cancer targets”, say Huang and co-workers from National Taiwan University.
The article was published in our latest issue of RSC Advances, issue 4, 2012. It is free to access by simply registering online before December 2012.
Highly flexible and stable aptamer-caged nanoparticles for control of thrombin activity
Chia-Lun Hsu, Shih-Chun Wei, Jyun-Wei Jian, Huan-Tsung Chang, Wei-Hsi Chen and Chih-Ching Huang
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1577-1584
Scientists in China have come up with a green way to reduce graphene oxide so that it can be used in the biomedical field.
The team has used the anticoagulant heparin, a straight-chain anionic glycosaminoglycan and a natural polymer, to reduce and stabilise the graphene oxide. The heparin–reduced graphene oxide sheets show excellent biocompatibility and activity as a blood anticoagulant, according to the researchers. They also say that the heparin–reduced graphene oxide could bind strongly to anticancer drugs for highly efficient loading.
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Green and easy synthesis of biocompatible graphene for use as an anticoagulant
Yi Wang, Pu Zhang, Chun Fang Liu, Lei Zhan, Yuan Fang Li and Cheng Zhi Huang
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00841F, Paper
RSC Advances wishes to celebrate Australia Day by highlighting all of our articles that are written by authors from Australia. Please note that all the articles are free to download upon a simple registration process.
Articles from Down Under:
Research progress and materials selection guidelines on mixed conducting perovskite-type ceramic membranes for oxygen production
Kun Zhang, Jaka Sunarso, Zongping Shao, Wei Zhou, Chenghua Sun, Shaobin Wang and Shaomin Liu
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1661-1676, Review
Effect of different additives on the hydrogen storage properties of the MgH2-LiAlH4 destabilized system
M. Ismail, Y. Zhao, X. B. Yu and S. X. Dou
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 408-414
Graphene–V2O5·nH2O xerogel composite cathodes for lithium ion batteries
Guodong Du, Kuok Hau Seng, Zaiping Guo, Jun Liu, Wenxian Li, Dianzeng Jia, Chris Cook, Zongwen Liu and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 690-697
Ultraflexible plasmonic nanocomposite aerogel
Yi Chen, Khee Chaw Ng, Wenyi Yan, Yue Tang and Wenlong Cheng
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1265-1270
Copper(I) speciation in mixed thiosulfate-chloride and ammonia-chloride solutions: XAS and UV-Visible spectroscopic studies
Barbara E. Etschmann, Jay R. Black, Pascal V. Grundler, Stacey Borg, Dale Brewe, D. C. McPhail, Leone Spiccia and Joël Brugger
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1554-1566
Formation of a chrome-free and coloured conversion coating on AA6063 aluminium alloy
Tingyi Chen, Wenfang Li and Jackie Cai
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 607-610
Controlled hydrolysis of aryltellurium trichlorides using 2-pyrrolidinones: isolation and structural characterization of monomeric aryltellurium(IV) monohydroxides
Shafalika Misra, Ashok K. S. Chauhan, Ramesh C. Srivastava, Andrew Duthie and R. J. Butcher
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 808-816
Dispersion of SnO2 nanocrystals on TiO2(B) nanowires as anode material for lithium ion battery applications
Zunxian Yang, Guodong Du, Qing Meng, Zaiping Guo, Xuebin Yu, Zhixin Chen, Tailiang Guo and Rong Zeng
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1834-1840
A novel bath lily-like graphene sheet-wrapped nano-Si composite as a high performance anode material for Li-ion batteries
Yu-Shi He, Pengfei Gao, Jun Chen, Xiaowei Yang, Xiao-Zhen Liao, Jun Yang and Zi-Feng Ma
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 958-960
Selective adsorption and photocatalysis of low-temperature base-modified anatase nanocrystals
Manoj A. Lazar and Walid A. Daoud
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 447-452
Analytical-scale purification of trichostatin A from bacterial culture in a single step and with high selectivity using immobilised metal affinity chromatography
Najwa Ejje, Ernest Lacey and Rachel Codd
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 333-337
K0.25Mn2O4 nanofiber microclusters as high power cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries
Chaofeng Zhang, Chuanqi Feng, Peng Zhang, Zaiping Guo, Zhixin Chen, Sean Li and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00510C, Paper
Enhanced hydrogen storage properties of NaAlH4 co-catalysed with niobium fluoride and single-walled carbon nanotubes
Jianfeng Mao, Zaiping Guo and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00645B, Paper
Clicking dendritic peptides onto single walled carbon nanotubes
Eli Moore, Peng-Yuan Wang, Andrew P. Vogt, Christopher T. Gibson, Vattekat Haridas and Nicolas H. Voelcker
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00791F, Communication
Self assembly of bivalent glycolipids on single walled carbon nanotubes and their specific molecular recognition properties
Bandaru Narasimha Murthy, Susanne Zeile, Monessha Nambiar, Matthew R. Nussio, Christopher T. Gibson, Joseph G. Shapter, Narayanaswamy Jayaraman and Nicolas H. Voelcker
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01192A, Communication
Design of low-charge peptide sequences for high-yield formation of titania nanoparticles
Chun-Xia Zhao, Lei Yu and Anton P. J. Middelberg
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00726F, Communication
Here at RSC Advances, we wish to celebrate Chinese new year by highlighting some of our recently published articles on energy and power generation:
Sustainable power generation
Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) as an effective tool in reducing auto-oxidation of dried pine sawdust for power generation
Mehrdad Arshadi, Andrew J. Hunt and James H. Clark
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00715G, Paper
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) for sustainable energy production and product recovery from organic wastes and industrial wastewaters
Deepak Pant, Anoop Singh, Gilbert Van Bogaert, Stig Irving Olsen, Poonam Singh Nigam, Ludo Diels and Karolien Vanbroekhoven
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00839K, Review
A new outlook on solubility of carbohydrates and sugar alcohols in ionic liquids
Lucinda J. A. Conceiçao, Ewa Bogel-Łukasik and Rafał Bogel-Łukasik
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA01006A, Paper
Lithium ion batteries
Facile preparation of hydrated vanadium pentoxide nanobelts based bulky paper as flexible binder-free cathodes for high-performance lithium ion batteries
Xianhong Rui, Jixin Zhu, Weiling Liu, Huiteng Tan, Daohao Sim, Chen Xu, Hua Zhang, Jan Ma, Huey Hoon Hng, Tuti Mariana Lim and Qingyu Yan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 117-122
Magnetite/graphene nanosheet composites: interfacial interaction and its impact on the durable high-rate performance in lithium-ion batteries
Jisheng Zhou, Huaihe Song, Lulu Ma and Xiaohong Chen
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 782-791
Electrospun carbon nanofibers decorated with various amounts of electrochemically-inert nickel nanoparticles for use as high-performance energy storage materials
Liwen Ji, Zhan Lin, Mataz Alcoutlabi, Ozan Toprakci, Yingfang Yao, Guanjie Xu, Shuli Li and Xiangwu Zhang
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 192-198, Paper
K0.25Mn2O4 nanofiber microclusters as high power cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries
Chaofeng Zhang, Chuanqi Feng, Peng Zhang, Zaiping Guo, Zhixin Chen, Sean Li and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00510C, Paper
Stabilized cycling performance of silicon oxide anode in ionic liquid electrolyte for rechargeable lithium batteries
Jin-Woo Song, Cao Cuong Nguyen and Seung-Wan Song
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01183B, Paper
Capacitors and supercapacitors
Electrochemical capacitors utilising transition metal oxides: an update of recent developments
Wentao Deng, Xiaobo Ji, Qiyuan Chen and Craig E. Banks
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1171-1178, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00664A, Review
An electrochemically formed three-dimensional structure of polypyrrole/graphene nanoplatelets for high-performance supercapacitors
Peng Si, Shujiang Ding, Xiong-Wen (David) Lou and Dong-Hwan Kim
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1271-1278, Paper
High-performance aqueous supercapacitors based on hierarchically porous graphitized carbon
Zheng Chen, Ding Weng, Hiesang Sohn, Mei Cai and Yunfeng Lu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00887D, Communication
Fuel Cells
Robust solid oxide cells for alternate power generation and carbon conversion
Xiaoming Ge, Lan Zhang, Yanan Fang, Jie Zeng and Siew Hwa Chan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 715-724
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00355K, Paper
Symmetric and reversible solid oxide fuel cells
Juan Carlos Ruiz-Morales, David Marrero-López, Jesús Canales-Vázquez and John T. S. Irvine
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1403-1414, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00284H, Review
Electrochemical growth of gold nanostructures on carbon paper for alkaline direct glucose fuel cell
Sze-Ping Tung, Ting-Kai Huang, Chi-Young Lee and Hsin-Tien Chiu
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1068-1073, Paper
Solar Cells
Large scale two-dimensional nanobowl array high efficiency polymer solar cell
Szu-Ying Chen, Yu-Ting Yen, Yi-Yang Chen, Chain-Shu Hsu, Yu-Lun Chueh and Lih-Juann Chen
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01258H, Communication
Efficient Small Molecule Organic Semiconductor containing Bis-dimethylfluorenyl Amino Benzo[b]thiophene for High Open Circuit Voltage in High Efficiency Solution Processed Organic Solar Cell
Jooyoung Kim, Haye Min Ko, Nara Cho, Sanghyun Paek, Jae Kwan Lee and Jaejung Ko
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01271E, Communication
A bilayer structure of a titania nanoparticle/highly-ordered nanotube array for low-temperature dye-sensitized solar cells
Jianqiang Luo, Lian Gao, Jing Sun and Yangqiao Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00731B, Paper
More energy-related articles can be read here. Please note that all of our articles are free to download upon a simple registration process.
RSC Advances wishes a happy chinese new year to all our authors, referees, readers and editors.
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Biotemplated Synthesis of Catalytic Au-Pd Nanoparticles
Simon Hall, Andrew Collins, Natalie J Wood, Wataru Ogasawara, Moataz Morad, Peter Miedziak, Meenakshisundaram Sankar, D W Knight and Graham Hutchings
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01336C
Columnar mesophases of luminescent polycatenar liquid crystals incorporating a 1,3-substituted benzene ring interconnecting two 1,3,4-oxadiazoles
Jianchuan Tang, Rong Huang, Hongfei Gao, Xiaohong Cheng, Marko Prehm,and Carsten Tschierske
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01362B
Additional bioactive guanidine alkaloids from the Mediterranean sponge Crambe crambe
Stéphanie Bondu, Grégory Genta-Jouve, Marta Leirόs, Carmen Vale, Jean-Marie Guigonis, Luis M. Botana, and Olivier P. Thomas
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00045H
Efficient Small Molecule Organic Semiconductor containing Bis-dimethylfluorenyl Amino Benzo[b]thiophene for High Open Circuit Voltage in High Efficiency Solution Processed Organic Solar Cell
Jooyoung Kim, Haye Min Ko, Nara Cho, Sanghyun Paek, Jae Kwan Lee and Jaejung Ko
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01271E
Decoupling of CVD Graphene by controlled Oxidation of Recrystallized
Cu Ang-Yu Lu, Sung-Yen Wei, Chih-Yu Wu, Yenny Hernandez, Tzu-Yin Chen, Te-Huan Liu, Chun-Wei Pao, Fu-Rong Chen, Lain-Jong Li and Zhen-Yu Juang
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01281B
Phase selective carbohydrate gelator
Somnath Mukherjee and Balaram Mukhopadhyay
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00036A
Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Solvatochromism, and Ion-binding Studies of a Ditopic Receptor Based on 2-(4-[2,2′: 6′,2′′]Terpyridin-4′-yl-phenyl)-1H-phenanthro[9,10-d] imidazole (tpy-HImzphen) Unit
Chanchal Bhaumik, Dinesh Maity, Shyamal Das, and Sujoy Baitalik
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00023G
Different types of phase separation in binary monolayers of long chain alkyltrichlorosilanes on silicon oxide
Simon Desbief, Lionel Patrone, Didier Goguenheim, Dominique Vuillaume
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01327D
Collision-Induced Dissociation of Singly and Doubly Charged CuII-Cytidine Complexes in the Gas Phase: an Experimental and Computational Study
Shuqin Zhang, Li Xu, Junguo Dong, Ping Cheng, Zhen Zhou
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01293F
Stabilization of poly-iodides: structural influences of the cationic disulfides of 2-mercapto-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-pyrimidine and 2-mercatpo-pyrimidine.
Anita M. Owczarzak, Maciej Kubicki, Nikolaos Kourkoumelis, Sotiris K. Hadjikakou
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00013J
Synthetic 5′-phosphorylated oligodeoxynucleotide purification through catching full-length sequences by polymerization
Yinan Yuan, Fueangfung Suntara, Xi Lin, Durga Pokharel and Shiyue Fang
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01357F
ß-Lactam-host defence peptide conjugates as antibiotic prodrug candidates targeting resistant bacteria
Stephane Desgranges, Carol Ruddle, Liam Burke, Tara Mary Mc Fadden, John E O’Brien, Deirdre Fitzgerald -Hughes, Hilary Humphreys, Timothy P Smyth and Marc Devocelle
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01351G
Indirect Hydrodesulfurization of Gasoline via Sodium Borohydride Reduction with Nickel Catalysis under Ambient Conditions
Yafei Shen, Tonghua Sun and Jinping Jia
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01313D
Diffusion-diffraction using singlet spin states and various NMR coherences in a J-coupled AX spin system
Allan M. Torres, Bahman Ghadirian and William S. Price
RSC Adv., 2012, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20063E
All 2011 and 2012 articles published in RSC Advances are free to download upon a simple registration process.
Below is a list containing some of the most downloaded RSC Advances articles in 2011:
A novel bath lily-like graphene sheet-wrapped nano-Si composite as a high performance anode material for Li-ion batteries
Yu-Shi He, Pengfei Gao, Jun Chen, Xiaowei Yang, Xiao-Zhen Liao, Jun Yang and Zi-Feng Ma
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 958-960
Electrochemistry of graphene: not such a beneficial electrode material?
Dale A. C. Brownson, Lindsey J. Munro, Dimitrios K. Kampouris and Craig E. Banks
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 978-988
CO2 chemistry: task-specific ionic liquids for CO2 capture/activation and subsequent conversion
Zhen-Zhen Yang, Ya-Nan Zhao and Liang-Nian He
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 545-567
Incorporation of pyridazine rings in the structure of functionalized π-conjugated materials
Sylvain Achelle, Nelly Plé and Alain Turck
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 364-388
Fe3O4@SiO2@Pd-Au: a highly efficient and magnetically separable catalyst for liquid-phase hydrodechlorination of 4-chlorophenol
Zhijie Wu, Chongxia Sun, Yan Chai and Minghui Zhang
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1179-1182
Modulation of the photophysical properties of BODIPY dyes by substitution at their meso position
Jorge Bañuelos, Ismael J. Arroyo-Córdoba, Ismael Valois-Escamilla, Alejandro Alvarez-Hernández, Eduardo Peña-Cabrera, Rongrong Hu, Ben Zhong Tang, Ixone Esnal, Virginia Martínez and Iñigo López Arbeloa
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 677-684
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“Peptides with an affinity for carbon nanotubes with specific chiralities have been selected by phage display for the first time”, claim scientists from Singapore and China. Phage display is a selection technique in which a combinatorial library of polypeptides allows identification of peptides with desired binding specificities to various target molecules.
Separation of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with a specific chirality is important in the field of carbon nanotube research and a prerequisite for their applications in nanoelectronics. “The availability of single-chirality SWCNT components is still a formidable challenge, although remarkable progress has been made in obtaining narrow chirality distributions of SWCNTs in the past few years”, explain Liao and co-workers.
The figure on the right shows the “biopanning” procedure designed to retain the desired phage and eliminate the undesired phages in the phage display library. More information about “biopanning” can be obtained by reading the full article online.
Free to access article reference:
Recognition of carbon nanotube chirality by phage display
Ting Yu, Yingxue Gong, Tingting Lu, Li Wei, Yuanqing Li, Yuguang Mu, Yuan Chen and Kin Liao
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00581B
