Code
01D25613
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Electronic (transport) properties
- Optical properties and interactions with radiation
- Materials physics not elsewhere classified
Keywords
sugars
electron magnetic resonance
DNA
radicals
ionizing radiation
Project description
This research focuses on the identification of radicals, produced in DNA via ionizing radiation, using electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) as main spectroscopic tool. No large single crystals can be made from DNA, as a result experiments have to be performed on powders and frozen soluitions. The ENDOR methodology for such disordered systems will first be developed via a case study on sugars.