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Stable DNA Motifs, 1D and 2D Nanostructures Constructed from Small Circular DNA Molecules
Published on: April 12, 2019
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Efficient one-pot assembly of higher-order DNA nanostructures by chemically conjugated branched DNA
Raja Muhammad Aqib1,2, Yuang Wang1, Jianbing Liu1,2
1CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China. liujb@nanoctr.cn.
Abstract:
Chemically conjugated branched DNA was successfully synthesized by a copper-free click reaction to construct sophisticated and higher-order polyhedral DNA nanostructures with pre-defined units in one pot, which can be used as an efficient nanoplatform to precisely organize multiple gold nanoparticles in predesigned patterns.
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