Development of biosensing platforms plays a key role in research settings for identification
of biomarkers and in clinical applications for diagnostics. Biosensors based on nucleic acids …

In order to fabricate highly sophisticated nanostructures, various research fields must be
fused into one unified concept. In recently emerging nanoarchitectonics, nanotechnology is …

DNA nanotechnology is a unique field, where physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics,
engineering, and materials science can elegantly converge. Since the original proposal of …

Emerging protein design strategies are enabling the creation of diverse, self-assembling
supramolecular structures with precision on the atomic scale. The design possibilities …

The use of DNA as a material for nanoscale construction has blossomed in the past decade.
This is largely attributable to the DNA origami technique, which has enabled construction of …

Over the past 35 years, DNA has been used to produce various nanometer-scale constructs,
nanomechanical devices, and walkers. Construction of complex DNA nanostructures relies …

Knot theory is a branch of pure mathematics, but it is increasingly being applied in a variety
of sciences. Knots appear in chemistry, not only in synthetic molecular design, but also in an …

The field of structural DNA nanotechnology has evolved remarkably—from the creation of
artificial immobile junctions to the recent DNA–protein hybrid nanoscale shapes—in a span …

Molecular knots represent one of the most extraordinary topological structures in biological
polymers. Creating highly knotted nanostructures with well-defined and sophisticated …

Ever since the notion of using DNA as a material was realized, it has been employed in the
construction of complex structures that facilitate the assembly of nanoparticles or …