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DNA Extraction: A Simple Thermoplastic Substrate Containing Hierarchical Silica Lamellae for High‐Molecular‐Weight DNA Extraction (Adv. Mater. 48/2016)
Author(s) -
Zhang Ye,
Zhang Yi,
Burke Jeffrey M.,
Gleitsman Kristin,
Friedrich Sarah M.,
Liu Kelvin J.,
Wang TzaHuei
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201670341
Subject(s) - microscale chemistry , materials science , dna , extraction (chemistry) , thermoplastic , nanoscopic scale , yield (engineering) , nanotechnology , composite material , chromatography , biochemistry , biology , chemistry , mathematics education , mathematics
K. J. Liu, T.‐H. Wang and co‐workers report a novel magnetic thermoplastic silica material called Nanobind on page 10630. Nanobind employs a jellyfish tentacle binding mechanism to perform high yield extraction of ultra high molecular weight genomic DNA. It is fabricated using an easily‐scaled, heat‐shrinking process to generate a high density of microscale folds and nanoscale silica lamellae that harbor DNA from shear force exposure and enable binding of vast amounts of reference quality DNA.