  The article demonstrates a technique for fabricating a structure with the
inclusion of suspended DNA threads and manipulating them using composite
nanotweezers with shape memory effect. This technique could be suitable for
stretching of nanothin DNA-like conductive threads and for measuring their
electrical conductivity, including the I-V characteristic directly in the
electron microscope chamber, where the nanotweezers provide a two-sided
clamping of the DNA tip, giving a stable nanocontact to the DNA bundle. Such
contact, as a part of 1D nanostructure, is more reliable during manipulations
with nanothreads than traditional measurements when a nanothread is touched by
a thin needle, for example, in a scanning tunnel microscope.
