The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X Xie… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

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 …

Structural DNA nanotechnology: state of the art and future perspective

F Zhang, J Nangreave, Y Liu, H Yan - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the past three decades DNA has emerged as an exceptional molecular building block
for nanoconstruction due to its predictable conformation and programmable intra-and …

A primer to scaffolded DNA origami

CE Castro, F Kilchherr, DN Kim, EL Shiao, T Wauer… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Molecular self-assembly with scaffolded DNA origami enables building custom-shaped
nanometer-scale objects with molecular weights in the megadalton regime. Here we provide …

Challenges and opportunities for structural DNA nanotechnology

AV Pinheiro, D Han, WM Shih, H Yan - Nature nanotechnology, 2011 - nature.com
DNA molecules have been used to build a variety of nanoscale structures and devices over
the past 30 years, and potential applications have begun to emerge. But the development of …

DNA nanotechnology

NC Seeman, HF Sleiman - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
DNA is the molecule that stores and transmits genetic information in biological systems. The
field of DNA nanotechnology takes this molecule out of its biological context and uses its …

DNA cage delivery to mammalian cells

AS Walsh, HF Yin, CM Erben, MJA Wood… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
DNA cages are nanometer-scale polyhedral structures formed by self-assembly from
synthetic DNA oligonucleotides. Potential applications include in vivo imaging and the …

From DNA nanotechnology to material systems engineering

Y Hu, CM Niemeyer - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the past 35 years, DNA nanotechnology has grown to a highly innovative and vibrant field
of research at the interface of chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, and …

DNA origami: a quantum leap for self-assembly of complex structures

T Tørring, NV Voigt, J Nangreave, H Yan… - Chemical Society …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The spatially controlled positioning of functional materials by self-assembly is one of the
fundamental visions of nanotechnology. Major steps towards this goal have been achieved …

Evolution of structural DNA nanotechnology

S Nummelin, J Kommeri, MA Kostiainen… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The research field entitled structural DNA nanotechnology emerged in the beginning of the
1980s as the first immobile synthetic nucleic acid junctions were postulated and …