Engineering inorganic materials with DNA nanostructures

A Heuer-Jungemann, V Linko - ACS Central Science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid nanotechnology lays a foundation for the user-friendly design and synthesis of
DNA frameworks of any desirable shape with extreme accuracy and addressability …

New materials for tissue engineering: towards greater control over the biological response

G Chan, DJ Mooney - Trends in biotechnology, 2008 - cell.com
One goal of tissue engineering is to replace lost or compromised tissue function, and an
approach to this is to control the interplay between materials (scaffolds), cells and growth …

DNA nanostructures as templates for biomineralization

D Athanasiadou, KMM Carneiro - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Nature uses extracellular matrix scaffolds to organize biominerals into hierarchical structures
over various length scales. This has inspired the design of biomimetic mineralization …

Assembling defined DNA nanostructure with nitrogen‐enriched carbon dots for theranostic cancer applications

D Wu, BL Li, Q Zhao, Q Liu, D Wang, B He, Z Wei… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
DNA nanostructures as scaffolds for drug delivery, biosensing, and bioimaging are hindered
by its vulnerability in physiological settings, less favorable of incorporating arbitrary guest …

Functional metal ions in nucleic acids

J Müller - Metallomics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Metal ions are inevitably involved in almost every aspect of nucleic acid chemistry. Their
most prominent role is certainly the maintenance of nucleic acid structural integrity …

Functionalized DNA nanostructures as scaffolds for guided mineralization

F Kim, T Chen, T Burgess, P Rasie, TL Selinger… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of DNA nanotechnology uses synthetic DNA strands as building blocks for
designing complex shapes in one-, two-and three-dimensions. Here, we investigate whether …

Peptide-decorated DNA nanostructures promote site-specific hydroxyapatite growth

AL Danesi, D Athanasiadou, AO Aderinto… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The guiding principle for mineralized tissue formation is that mineral growth occurs through
the interaction of Ca2+ and phosphate ions with extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins …

Organically functionalized mesoporous silica by co‐structure‐directing route

C Gao, S Che - Advanced Functional Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a brief overview of functional mesoporous silica materials synthesized
by the co‐structure‐directing route, which is distinct from conventional synthesis strategies …

DNA transformations for diagnosis and therapy

SY Ahn, J Liu, S Vellampatti, Y Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its unique physical and chemical characteristics, DNA, which is known only as
genetic information, has been identified and utilized as a new material at an astonishing …

Self-assembly-based structural DNA nanotechnology

Z Zhang, Y Fu, B Li, G Feng, C Li… - Current Organic …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Apart from providing the material for genetic information storage, DNA has also been
regarded as a useful building block in the field of nanotechnology, which is known as DNA …