Creating Selective directional interactions ... for the purpose of directed self-assembly (Undergraduate Thesis)
In my undergraduate thesis work I used different linkers to make gold nanoparticle chains, wrote software to analyze images, and used single-stranded DNA to produce highly selective polymerization chains. In an effort to win the “longest thesis title” contest the full title is:
Creating selective directional interactions with defects caused by subnanometre-ordered ligand domains on the surface of colloidal metal nanoparticles for the purpose of directed self-assembly.
Images are from cartoons in thesis presentation, and some of the results hint at further work that there was not time to do (especially the apparent micron scale super-assemblies of nanoparticles).
