Rebecca Brabin

• BSc H Chemistry w Medicinal Chemistry
• Towards enzymatic production of conducting polymer-DNA hybrid nanowires

DNA is often ascribed potential for use in molecular electronics. However the electron transport properties of native dsDNA are not sufficient for electronics. Therefore it has been necessary to add functionality, usually at the polymer strand level through templating techniques, with metal, semiconductor or conducting polymer materials. This project will investigate the modification of the building blocks of DNA, the nucleosides, with units of conducting polymers in order to incorporate them into a complexes which self-assemble by utilising the recognition properties of the double helix

 Funded by: Newcastle University

Project Supervisor: Dr Andrew R Pike