Chemistry: Rapid chiral assembly of rigid DNA building blocks for molecular nanofabrication

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5754, 2005, Pages 1661-1665

  Goodman, R P ^a   Schaap, I A T ^b   Tardin, C F ^b   Erben, C M ^a   Berry, R M ^a   Schmidt, C F ^b   Turberfield, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

DNA BUILDING BLOCKS; RAPID CHIRAL ASSEMBLY;

DNA;

DNA; DNA BASE; NANOMATERIAL; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

DNA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BASE PAIRING; CHIRALITY; COMPRESSION; DIASTEREOISOMER; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; MICROSCOPE; MOLECULAR NANOFABRICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIMERIZATION; ELASTICITY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DIMERIZATION; DNA; ELASTICITY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 28844463033     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120367     Document Type: Article

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