DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems

GA Knappe, EC Wamhoff, M Bathe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
DNA origami has emerged as a powerful method to generate DNA nanostructures with
dynamic properties and nanoscale control. These nanostructures enable complex …

Nanotechnology-based strategies against SARS-CoV-2 variants

X Huang, E Kon, X Han, X Zhang, N Kong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has already infected more
than 500 million people globally (as of May 2022), creating the coronavirus disease 2019 …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Chemistries for DNA nanotechnology

M Madsen, KV Gothelf - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The predictable nature of DNA interactions enables the programmable assembly of highly
advanced 2D and 3D DNA structures of nanoscale dimensions. The access to ever larger …

Photoswitchable diarylethenes: from molecular structures to biological applications

Z Li, X Zeng, C Gao, J Song, F He, T He, H Guo… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

New dimension in magnetism and superconductivity: 3D and curvilinear nanoarchitectures

D Makarov, OM Volkov, A Kákay… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the primary field, where curvature has been at the heart of research, is the
theory of general relativity. In recent studies, however, the impact of curvilinear geometry …

The beauty and utility of DNA origami

P Wang, TA Meyer, V Pan, PK Dutta, Y Ke - Chem, 2017 - cell.com
This review focuses on fundamental advances in DNA origami design and its emerging
applications. For convenience, applications are coarsely categorized into nanofabrication …

Highly shape-and size-tunable membrane nanopores made with DNA

Y Xing, A Dorey, L Jayasinghe, S Howorka - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Membrane nanopores are key for molecular transport in biology, portable DNA sequencing,,–
, label-free single-molecule analysis,,,,,,,,–and nanomedicine. Transport traditionally relies …

[HTML][HTML] From cascaded catalytic nucleic acids to enzyme–DNA nanostructures: controlling reactivity, sensing, logic operations, and assembly of complex structures

F Wang, CH Lu, I Willner - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
DNA is one of the most fascinating biopolymers. Besides its central role as carrier of genetic
information and translation of the genetic code into proteins, DNA holds great promise as a …