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Plasmid-templated shape control of condensed DNA-block copolymer nanoparticles
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|October 12, 2012
Abstract:
DNA-containing micellar nanoparticles with distinctly different and highly uniform morphologies are prepared via condensation of plasmid DNA with a block copolymer of polyethylene glycol and a polycation in solvents of different polarity. Molecular dynamics simulations explain the underlying mechanism.
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