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 …

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 …

Nonlinear decision-making with enzymatic neural networks

S Okumura, G Gines, N Lobato-Dauzier, A Baccouche… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks have revolutionized electronic computing. Similarly, molecular
networks with neuromorphic architectures may enable molecular decision-making on a level …

Photocleavable Ortho-Nitrobenzyl-Protected DNA Architectures and Their Applications

MP O'Hagan, Z Duan, F Huang, S Laps, J Dong… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review article introduces mechanistic aspects and applications of photochemically
deprotected ortho-nitrobenzyl (ONB)-functionalized nucleic acids and their impact on …

Fast and compact DNA logic circuits based on single-stranded gates using strand-displacing polymerase

T Song, A Eshra, S Shah, H Bui, D Fu, M Yang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
DNA is a reliable biomolecule with which to build molecular computation systems. In
particular, DNA logic circuits (diffusion-based) have shown good performance regarding …

Photoresponsive DNA materials and their applications

C Wang, MP O'Hagan, Z Li, J Zhang, X Ma… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoresponsive nucleic acids attract growing interest as functional constituents in materials
science. Integration of photoisomerizable units into DNA strands provides an ideal handle …

Autonomous dynamic control of DNA nanostructure self-assembly

LN Green, HKK Subramanian, V Mardanlou, J Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Biological cells routinely reconfigure their shape using dynamic signalling and regulatory
networks that direct self-assembly processes in time and space, through molecular …

Enzyme-free nucleic acid dynamical systems

N Srinivas, J Parkin, G Seelig, E Winfree, D Soloveichik - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Embedded controllers enable complex functionality in man-made
mechanical and electronic devices. Similarly, intricate regulatory networks within living …

Autocatalytic, bistable, oscillatory networks of biologically relevant organic reactions

SN Semenov, LJ Kraft, A Ainla, M Zhao… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Networks of organic chemical reactions are important in life and probably played a central
part in its origin,,. Network dynamics regulate cell division,,, circadian rhythms, nerve …

Programmable chemical controllers made from DNA

YJ Chen, N Dalchau, N Srinivas, A Phillips… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Biological organisms use complex molecular networks to navigate their environment and
regulate their internal state. The development of synthetic systems with similar capabilities …