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Self-assembly of Complex Two-dimensional Shapes from Single-stranded DNA Tiles
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Sequential self-assembly of a DNA hexagon as a template for the organization of gold nanoparticles
Faisal A Aldaye1, Hanadi F Sleiman
1Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|February 28, 2006
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