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Self-assembly of Complex Two-dimensional Shapes from Single-stranded DNA Tiles
Published on: May 8, 2015
Hierarchical self-assembly of a biomimetic light-harvesting antenna based on DNA G-quadruplexes
Núria Sancho Oltra1, Wesley R Browne, Gerard Roelfes
1Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|January 3, 2013
Abstract:
A new modular approach to an artificial light-harvesting antenna system is presented. The approach involves the hierarchical self-assembly of porphyrin acceptor molecules to G-quadruplexes tethered to coumarin donor moieties.

