DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

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 …

A CRISPR-Cas autocatalysis-driven feedback amplification network for supersensitive DNA diagnostics

K Shi, S Xie, R Tian, S Wang, Q Lu, D Gao, C Lei… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Artificial nucleic acid circuits with precisely controllable dynamic and function have shown
great promise in biosensing, but their utility in molecular diagnostics is still restrained by the …

Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …

Stimuli‐responsive biomolecule‐based hydrogels and their applications

M Vázquez‐González, I Willner - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Switchable and dynamic G-quadruplexes and their applications

J Dong, MP O'Hagan, I Willner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
G-Quadruplexes attract growing interest as functional constituents in biology, chemistry,
nanotechnology, and material science. In particular, the reversible dynamic reconfiguration …

Metal sensing by DNA

W Zhou, R Saran, J Liu - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metal ions are essential to many chemical, biological, and environmental processes. In the
past two decades, many DNA-based metal sensors have emerged. While the main …

DNA hydrogels and microgels for biosensing and biomedical applications

F Li, D Lyu, S Liu, W Guo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
DNA hydrogels, which take advantage of the unique properties of functional DNA motifs,
such as specific molecular recognition, programmable and high‐precision assembly …

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 …