Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Controlled assembly of inorganic nanoparticles with different compositions, sizes and
shapes into higher-order structures of collective functionalities is a central pursued objective …

The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

Nature has evolved strategies to encode information within a single biopolymer to program
biomolecular interactions with characteristic stoichiometry, orthogonality and …

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology involves the creation of nanoscale devices made of DNA
whose primary function arises from their ability to undergo controlled motion or …

X-ray-based analytics are routinely applied in many fields, including physics, chemistry,
materials science, and engineering. The full potential of such techniques in the life sciences …

Scalable fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) arrays of quantum dots (QDs) and quantum
rods (QRs) with nanoscale precision is required for numerous device applications. However …

Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

The reliable programmability of DNA origami makes it an extremely attractive tool for bottom-
up self-assembly of complex nanostructures. Utilizing this property for the tuned …

Circular dichroism (CD) has long been used to trace chiral molecular states and changes of
protein configurations. In recent years, chiral plasmonic nanostructures have shown …