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Designed DNA Crystals: Triangles with Short Sticky Ends
Author(s) -
Richert Clemens,
Meng Martin,
Singh Arunoday
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.200902108
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , oligonucleotide , crystallization , nanometre , dna , materials science , dna nanotechnology , scale (ratio) , chemistry , engineering , physics , chemical engineering , composite material , biochemistry , quantum mechanics
Crystallization , as a process, is difficult to predict and obtaining high‐quality crystals is more of an art than a solved technological problem. DNA nanotechnology now delivers design‐based crystals with unit‐cell dimensions on the nanometer scale that can be generated from oligonucleotides (see image) and that hold promise for many applications.