Schematic illustration of a niobium nitrate-coated DNA nanowire (IMAGE)

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Schematic illustration of a niobium nitrate-coated DNA nanowire

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Using DNA origami as a platform to build superconducting nanoarchitectures. (left) Schematic illustration of a niobium nitrate-coated DNA nanowire suspended above a silicon nitride/silicon oxide channel. (right) High-resolution scanning electron microscope (HR-SEM) image of the channel (black in image) on which the DNA nanowire is suspended. In the image, the channel appears discontinuous, reflecting the DNA suspended across it (marked by dashed orange rectangle). The distance between the two sides of the channel is ~50 nanometers, and the width of the niobium nitrate-coated nanowire at its narrowest point is ~25 nanometers.

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Lior Shani, Philip Tinnefeld, Yafit Fleger, Amos Sharoni, Boris Shapiro, Avner Shaulov, Oleg Gang, and Yosef Yeshurun

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