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This article appears in the following Nucleic Acid Symposium Series issue: Joint Symposium of the 18th International Roundtable on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids and the 35th International Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry [View the issue table of contents]
Addressable Molecular Node Assembly – High Information Density DNA Nanostructures
1Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering/Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden
2School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, S017 1BJ, Southampton, UK
*Corresponding Author. E-mail: erik.p.lundberg{at}chalmers.se
Abstract
The inherent self-assembly properties of DNA make it ideal in nanotechnology. We present a fully addressable DNA nanostructure with the smallest possible unit cell, a hexagon with a side-length of only 3.4 nm.2,3 Using novel three-way oligonucleotides, where each side has a unique double-stranded DNA sequence that can be assigned a specific address, we will build a non-repetitive two-dimensional grid.