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DNA Origami-Mediated Substrate Nanopatterning of Inorganic Structures for Sensing Applications
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Nucleic acid-modified nanostructures as programmable atom equivalents: forging a new "table of elements"
Robert J Macfarlane1, Matthew N O'Brien, Sarah Hurst Petrosko
1Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|May 4, 2013
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