Dissipative DNA nanotechnology

E Del Grosso, E Franco, LJ Prins, F Ricci - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool to precisely design and control
molecular circuits, machines and nanostructures. A major goal in this field is to build devices …

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 …

Molecular pumps and motors

Y Feng, M Ovalle, JSW Seale, CK Lee… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pumps and motors are essential components of the world as we know it. From the complex
proteins that sustain our cells, to the mechanical marvels that power industries, much we …

Artificial molecular motors

S Kassem, T van Leeuwen, AS Lubbe… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Motor proteins are nature's solution for directing movement at the molecular level. The field
of artificial molecular motors takes inspiration from these tiny but powerful machines …

A cargo-sorting DNA robot

AJ Thubagere, W Li, RF Johnson, Z Chen, S Doroudi… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Since the 1980s, the design and synthesis of molecular machines has
been identified as a grand challenge for molecular engineering. Robots are an important …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial molecular machines

S Erbas-Cakmak, DA Leigh, CT McTernan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Programmable materials and the nature of the DNA bond

MR Jones, NC Seeman, CA Mirkin - Spherical Nucleic Acids, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
A grand challenge in the fields of chemistry and materials science is the ability to construct f
the plac or a giv ement of en application. each component in or materials with absolute …

[HTML][HTML] A microRNA-initiated DNAzyme motor operating in living cells

H Peng, XF Li, H Zhang, XC Le - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Synthetic DNA motors have great potential to mimic natural protein motors in cells but the
operation of synthetic DNA motors in living cells remains challenging and has not been …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleic acid nanoassembly-enhanced RNA therapeutics and diagnosis

M Zhao, R Wang, K Yang, Y Jiang, Y Peng, Y Li… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
RNAs are involved in the crucial processes of disease progression and have emerged as
powerful therapeutic targets and diagnostic biomarkers. However, efficient delivery of …

Materials learning from life: concepts for active, adaptive and autonomous molecular systems

R Merindol, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …