An autonomous molecular assembler for programmable chemical synthesis

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 542-548

  Meng, Wenjing ^a   Muscat, Richard A ^a   McKee, Mireya L ^a   Milnes, Phillip J ^b   El Sagheer, Afaf H ^a,c   Bath, Jonathan ^a   Davis, Benjamin G ^a   Brown, Tom ^a   O'Reilly, Rachel K ^b   Turberfield, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c Suez University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NANOMATERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYMER;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS;

DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS;

EID: 84971201856     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2495     Document Type: Article

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