We report a symmetric design strategy to reduce the number of required DNA component strands in 3D self-assembly and have demonstrated this strategy by construction of a series of 3D DNA nanoprisms out of only two DNA strands.
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Self-assembly of DNA nanoprisms with only two component strands
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, P. R. China
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Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
E-mail: mao@purdue.edu
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Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 2807-2809
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC39177A
Received 23 Dec 2012, Accepted 15 Feb 2013
First published online 18 Feb 2013
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