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SUBMITTER: Cervantes-Salguero K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5312864 | biostudies-other | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cervantes-Salguero Keitel K Hamada Shogo S Nomura Shin-Ichiro M SM Murata Satoshi S
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20150216 1
Self-assembling molecular building blocks able to dynamically change their shapes, is a concept that would offer a route to reconfigurable systems. Although simulation studies predict novel properties useful for applications in diverse fields, such kinds of building blocks, have not been implemented thus far with molecules. Here, we report shape-variable building blocks fabricated by DNA self-assembly. Blocks are movable enough to undergo shape transitions along geometrical ranges. Blocks connec ...[more]