Scientists developed two DNA-based self-assembly approaches for desired nanostructures. The first approach allows the same set of nanoparticles to be connected into a variety of three-dimensional ...

Figure 1: Scheme of three designed clusters assembled from DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles on correspondingly encoded vertices of octahedral DNA frames. Figure 2: Structure of the self-assembled ...

UPTON, NY--A cube, an octahedron, a prism--these are among the polyhedral structures, or frames, made of DNA that scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory ...