Coding and geometrical shapes in nanostructures: A fractal DNA-assembly

Natural Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-151

  Carbone, Alessandra ^a   Seeman, Nadrian C ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding of tiles; DNA assembly; DNA molecules; DNA nanotechnology; Geometry of tiles; Sierpinski fractals; Tiling

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GEOMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 1042306188     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024943106163     Document Type: Article

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