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Self-assembling Nano-ice Discovered -- Structure Resembles DNA

Science Daily — Working at the frontier between chemistry and physics, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Xiao Cheng Zeng usually finds his reward in discovering the unexpected through computer modeling.

Zeng and his colleagues regularly find new and often unanticipated behaviors of matter in extreme environments, and those discoveries have been published several times in major international scientific journals. Their findings, though, have been so far ahead of existing technology that their immediate practical impact was essentially nil -- until now.

Zeng and two members of his UNL team recently found double helixes of ice molecules that resemble the structure of DNA and self-assemble under high pressure inside carbon nanotubes.

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Evidently DNA type structure do not require guidance just proper physical conditions..Your thoughts and analyses are welcome.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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Sounds like a link to Quantum Physics world. Perhaps there are some forces from that paradigm.

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That’s pretty cool. If we can manipulate crystalline formation, we can get silicon doped circuitry to manufacture itself on a molecular scale some day...

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