Boise State University

Uchicago Argonne, LLC

Elton Graugnard

Bernard Yurke

Jeffrey W Elam

Anil U Mane

Bert Huttanus

Jeunghoon Lee

Will Hughes

William B Knowlton

Steven Payonk Letourneau

Donghyeon Kang

Brittany Cannon

Sara Kuraitis

A method of making thin films of sodium fluorides and their derivatives by atomic layer deposition ('ALD'). A sodium precursor is exposed to a substrate in an ALD reactor. The sodium precursor is purged, leaving the substrate with a sodium intermediate bound thereon. A fluorine precursor is exposed to the bound sodium intermediate in the ALD reactor. The fluorine precursor is purged and a sodium fluoride film is formed on the substrate.

Method of making thin films of sodium fluorides and their derivatives by ALD

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are deposited as thin layers on a substrate. The TMDs may be grown on oxide substrates and may have a tunable TMD-oxide interface.

Methods to deposit controlled thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides

The nucleotides can then be polymerized into oligomers. The design of the oligomers will depend on the design of the overall architecture. Simple architectures may be designed by any methods. However, more complex architectures may be design using software, such as caDNAno (as described at cadnano.org/docs.html, and herein incorporated by reference), to minimize errors and time. The user may input the desired shape of the architecture into the software and once finalized, the software will provide the oligomer sequences of the bricks to create the desired architecture. The length of the oligomers may be from about 10 to about 10,000, or less than about 9,000, less than about 8,000, less than about 5,000 nucleotides in length. The length of the oligomer will be optimized for the type of architecture used.

DNA ink&#x2014;near-field absorption coupling for colorimetric detection, DNA ink, chromic photoswitches, and chromic molecular ruler

The present invention provides compositions and methods for colorimetric detection schemes for detecting a variety of biomolecules. The compositions and methods employ DNA hybridization chain reaction for catalytic aggregation of gold nanoparticles. In this catalytic aggregation scheme, a single target DNA strand triggers the formation of multiple inter-particle linkages in contrast to the single linkage formed in conventional direct aggregation schemes.

Enhanced DNA sensing via catalytic aggregation of gold nanoparticles by DNA hybridization chain reaction

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