Principles and applications of nucleic acid strand displacement reactions

FC Simmel, B Yurke, HR Singh - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Dynamic DNA nanotechnology, a subfield of DNA nanotechnology, is concerned with the
study and application of nucleic acid strand-displacement reactions. Strand-displacement …

Total synthesis of colloidal matter

T Hueckel, GM Hocky, S Sacanna - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …

Osmosis, from molecular insights to large-scale applications

S Marbach, L Bocquet - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Osmosis is a universal phenomenon occurring in a broad variety of processes and fields. It
is the archetype of entropic forces, both trivial in its fundamental expression–the van't Hoff …

Self-assembly of emulsion droplets through programmable folding

A McMullen, M Muñoz Basagoiti, Z Zeravcic, J Brujic - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In the realm of particle self-assembly, it is possible to reliably construct nearly arbitrary
structures if all the pieces are distinct,–, but systems with fewer flavours of building blocks …

Biomolecule-mimetic nanomaterials for photothermal and photodynamic therapy of cancers: Bridging nanobiotechnology and biomedicine

P He, G Yang, D Zhu, H Kong… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Nanomaterial-based phototherapy has become an important research direction for cancer
therapy, but it still to face some obstacles, such as the toxic side effects and low target …

Building reconfigurable devices using complex liquid–fluid interfaces

J Forth, PY Kim, G Xie, X Liu, BA Helms… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid–fluid interfaces provide a platform both for structuring liquids into complex shapes
and assembling dimensionally confined, functional nanomaterials. Historically, attention in …

[HTML][HTML] A quantitative view on multivalent nanomedicine targeting

L Woythe, NB Tito, L Albertazzi - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Although the concept of selective delivery has been postulated over 100 years ago, no
targeted nanomedicine has been clinically approved so far. Nanoparticles modified with …

DNA droplets: intelligent, dynamic fluid

H Udono, J Gong, Y Sato, M Takinoue - Advanced Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Breathtaking advances in DNA nanotechnology have established DNA as a promising
biomaterial for the fabrication of programmable higher‐order nano/microstructures. In the …

The new age of cell-free biology

V Noireaux, AP Liu - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The cell-free molecular synthesis of biochemical systems is a rapidly growing field of
research. Advances in the Human Genome Project, DNA synthesis, and other technologies …

Freely jointed polymers made of droplets

A McMullen, M Holmes-Cerfon, F Sciortino… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
An important goal of self-assembly is to achieve a preprogrammed structure with high
fidelity. Here, we control the valence of DNA-functionalized emulsions to make linear and …