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Designing a Bio-responsive Robot from DNA Origami
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Publisher Correction: Polymorphic design of DNA origami structures through mechanical control of modular components
Chanseok Lee1, Jae Young Lee1, Do-Nyun Kim2,3
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, 301-dong 116-ho, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Korea.
Nature Communications
|February 9, 2018
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The originally published version of this Article contained an error in Figure 5. In panel f, the right y-axis 'Strain energy (kbT)' was labelled 'Probability' and the left y-axis 'Probability' was labelled 'Strain energy (kbT)'. This error has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
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