Research

There are three main focus areas of The Scientist's group:

a) The understanding of how small non-coding RNA and circular RNA contribute to cell maintenance and disease development with a primary aim of defining new targets for disease intervention.

b) The creation of novel bioimaging and delivery systems for gene medicine including siRNA, miRNA mimics, antimiRs (antisense targeting microRNA) with a specific focus on inflammation, cancer, influenza, and regeneration of damaged tissue (tissue engineering).

c) Design and construction of functionalized self assembled DNA and RNA nanostructures capable of complex biosensing, coupled with controlled action e.g. drug release, enzyme activation, and receptor signaling.

Recent publications

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Zhao, G., Yu, D., Zhang, H., Sun, F., Li, J., Zhu, L., Sun, L., Yu, M., Besenbacher, F. & Sun, Y. (2020). Sulphur-doped carbon nanosheets derived from biomass as high-performance anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Nano Energy, 67, Article 104219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104219

Zhao, W., Song, W., Cheong, L. Z., Wang, D., Li, H., Besenbacher, F., Huang, F. & Shen, C. (2019). Beyond imaging: Applications of atomic force microscopy for the study of Lithium-ion batteries. Ultramicroscopy, 204, 34-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.05.004

Dai, Y., Bu, Q., Sooriyagoda, R., Tavadze, P., Pavlic, O., Lim, T., Shen, Y., Mamakhel, A., Wang, X., Li, Y., Niemantsverdriet, H., Iversen, B. B., Besenbacher, F., Xie, T., Lewis, J. P., Bristow, A. D., Lock, N. & Su, R. (2019). Boosting Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production by Modulating Recombination Modes and Proton Adsorption Energy. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(18), 5381-5386. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01460

Du, B., Tang, C., Zhao, D., Zhang, H., Yu, D., Yu, M., Balram, K. C., Gersen, H., Yang, B., Cao, W., Gu, C., Besenbacher, F., Li, J. & Sun, Y. (2019). Diameter-optimized high-order waveguide nanorods for fluorescence enhancement applied in ultrasensitive bioassays. Nanoscale, 11(30), 14322-14329. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr02330e

Zhao, W., Cui, W., Xu, S., Wang, Y., Zhang, K., Wang, D., Cheong, L.-Z., Besenbacher, F. & Shen, C. (2019). Direct investigation of charge transfer in neurons by electrostatic force microscopy. Ultramicroscopy, 196, 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2018.09.015

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Lise Refstrup Linnebjerg Pedersen