Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA into symmetric supramolecular polyhedra

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7184, 2008, Pages 198-201

  He, Yu ^a   Ye, Tao ^a   Su, Min ^b   Zhang, Chuan ^a   Ribbe, Alexander E ^a   Jiang, Wen ^b   Mao, Chengde ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 40749140401     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06597     Document Type: Article

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