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Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering, prepares to load a sample into a furnace used to create the new zinc oxide nanohelix structures. This new, previously unknown zinc oxide nanostructure, that resembles the helical configuration of DNA, could provide engineers with a new building block for creating nanometer-scale sensors, transducers, resonators and other devices that rely on electromechanical coupling.