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Self-assembly of Complex Two-dimensional Shapes from Single-stranded DNA Tiles
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Self-assembly of precisely defined DNA nanotube superstructures using DNA origami seeds
A M Mohammed1, L Velazquez2, A Chisenhall1
1Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA. rschulm3@jhu.edu.
Nanoscale
|December 14, 2016
Abstract:
We demonstrate a versatile process for assembling micron-scale filament architectures by controlling where DNA tile nanotubes nucleate on DNA origami assemblies. "Nunchucks," potential mechanical magnifiers of nanoscale dynamics consisting of two nanotubes connected by a dsDNA linker, form at yields sufficient for application and consistent with models.
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