{"id":3742,"date":"2021-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2021\/02\/02\/materials-physics-with-kinetoplast-dna\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"materials-physics-with-kinetoplast-dna","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/materials-physics-with-kinetoplast-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials Physics with Kinetoplast DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-646.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-646.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-646.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Alex Klotz<\/p>\n<p>The biological world is the source of many materials with exotic or desirable properties. Among these, DNA molecules have served as a model system to study the physics of polymers on the single-molecule level. A kinetoplast is an exotic form of DNA, found in certain tropical parasites, that consists of thousands of circular molecules topologically linked together like a sheet of chainmail armor. I will discuss the motivation and path that lead me to study kinetoplast DNA, some recent and ongoing experimental results, and what we can learn about the physics of two-dimensional materials and mechanically-interlocked chemical bonds from studying these DNA structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3742","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}