Prediction and control in DNA nanotechnology

M DeLuca, S Sensale, PA Lin, G Arya - ACS applied bio materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
DNA nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field that uses DNA as a building material for
nanoscale structures. Key to the field's development has been the ability to accurately …

Storage of mechanical energy in DNA nanorobotics using molecular torsion springs

M Vogt, M Langecker, M Gouder, E Kopperger… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA nanostructures are increasingly used for the realization of mechanically active
nanodevices and DNA-based nanorobots. A fundamental challenge in this context is the …

From Brownian to deterministic motor movement in a DNA-based molecular rotor

F Rothfischer, M Vogt, E Kopperger, U Gerland… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular devices that have an anisotropic periodic potential landscape can be operated as
Brownian motors. When the potential landscape is cyclically switched with an external force …

Thermally reversible pattern formation in arrays of molecular rotors

M DeLuca, WG Pfeifer, B Randoing, CM Huang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Control over the mesoscale to microscale patterning of materials is of great interest to the
soft matter community. Inspired by DNA origami rotors, we introduce a 2D nearest-neighbor …

Realizing Mechanical Frustration at the Nanoscale Using DNA Origami

AS Madhvacharyula, R Li, AA Swett, Y Du, FC Simmel… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Structural designs inspired by physical and biological systems have been previously utilized
to develop advanced mechanical metamaterials. These are based on the clever geometric …

Exploring Structure and Mechanics of Molecular Sensors and DNA Nanodevices

D Lopez - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Here we present investigations on the structure and mechanics of molecular force sensors
and DNA nanodevices using a combination of computational and experimental approaches …

Innovations in biophysics: A sampling of ideas celebrating Ned Seeman's legacy

T Schlick - Biophysical journal, 2022 - cell.com
We offer you four perspectives and reviews on the following: Ned's crystallographic legacy
(1); key sequence-specific binding motifs of nucleic acids to proteins, and associated …