Nanochemical studies

Surface Nanochemical Studies of Polymers and Other Organic Surfaces by Scanning Force Microscopy... 

The Holliday junctions formed during recombination are mobile, but synthetic immobile Holliday junctions can be synthesized by using nonhomolo-gous base sequences or by locking the jrmctions. This has permitted careful physical study of these and other more elaborate synthetic junchons. With suitable choices of base sequences for the oligonucleotides from which they are made, such junctions will assemble spontaneously. Double-stranded DNA with immobile junctions is a very suitable construction material on a "nanochemical" scale. It has been assembled into knots, rings, cubes, and more complex polyhedra. ... 

The utility of these systems in nanochemical engineering is still far in the future but their study has contributed to identifying some of the perils and promise of extrapolating macroscopic principles to the molecular level, and has provided conceptual insight into the operation of biological motors. 

Studies of nanochemical systems span many areas, from the study of the interactions of individual atoms and how to manipulate them, how to control chemical reactions at an atomic level, to the study of larger molecular assembhes, such as dendrimers, clusters, and polymers. From studies of assemblies, significant new structures—such as nanotubes, nanowires, three-dimensional molecular assembhes, and lab-on-a-chip devices for separations and biological research—have been developed. 

Hahner G, Marti A and Spencer N D 1997 The influence of pH on friction between oxide surfaces in electrolytes, studied with lateral force microscopy application as a nanochemical imaging technique Tribol. Lett. 3 359... 

Although nanochemical control was proposed decades ago, it was only recently that many of the tools necessary for studying the nanoworld were developed. These include the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), atomic force microscope (AFM), high resolution scanning and transmission electron microscopies, x rays, ion and electron beam probes, and new methods for nanofabrication and Uthography. 

Studied with Lateral Force Microscopy Application as a Nanochemical... 

Thus, I heartily recommend Putz s Qu-SAR book for its use and study equally by freshman (including graduate and Master students) in quantum eco-pharmacotoxicity and QSAR as well by advanced researchers (as PhD students and post-docs) for modeling, ordering and interpreting the chemical-biological data by the a o-structural (i.e., quantum nanochemical) causes of the biological activities as recorded (observable) effects. 

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