Winner of the IUPAC Prize
for Young Chemists - 2009

Faisal A. Aldaye wins one of the five IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists, for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled "Supramolecular DNA nanotechnology: Discrete nanoparticle organization, three-dimensional DNA construction and molecule-mediated DNA self-assembly".

current address(at time of application)

Email: faisal_aldaye@hms.harvard.edu

• McGill University, 2008, Ph.D. in Chemistry
• Dalhousie University, 2002, B.Sc. in Chemistry(honors)

Title Supramolecular DNA nanotechnology: Discrete nanoparticle organization, three-dimensional DNA construction and molecule-mediated DNA self-assembly

Adviser Professor Hanadi F. Sleiman

Essay

The field of structural DNA nanotechnology utilizes DNA's powerful base-pairing molecular recognition criteria to help solve a number of problems facing researchers in material science and nanotechnology. In it, DNA is stripped away from its preconceived biological role, and is treated as a syntehtic polymer. A subarea of research that we have recently termed supramolecular DNA nanotechnology is emergin, and is proving to be a powerful complement to some of the already established rules of structural DNA nanotechnology. My work as a doctoral student helped establish this new area of research.....[full text; pdf file - 1.43MB]

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