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Dianming Wang1, Yiyang Zhang1, Miao Wang1
1Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China. liudongsheng@tsinghua.edu.
Nanoscale
|February 4, 2016
Abstract:
A nanochannel with a shutter at one end was built by DNA nanotechnology. Using DNA hybridization the shutter could be opened or closed, influencing the transport of materials through the channel. This process was visualized by an enzyme cascade reaction occurring in the structure.
