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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

DNA self-organization controls valence in programmable colloid design.

Angus McMullen, Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Jasna Brujic

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Design and Characterization of DX-Tile DNA Nanostar-Based Hydrogels.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Angus McMullenCenter for Soft Matter Research, New York University, New York, NY 10003.ORCID 0000-0003-2502-9830
Sascha HilgenfeldtMechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.ORCID 0000-0002-6799-2118
Jasna BrujicCenter for Soft Matter Research, New York University, New York, NY 10003; jasna.brujic@nyu.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Just like atoms combine into molecules, colloids can self-organize into predetermined structures according to a set of design principles. Controlling valence-the number of interparticle bonds-is a prerequisite for the assembly of complex architectures. The assembly can be directed via solid "patchy" particles with prescribed geometries to make, for example, a colloidal diamond. We demonstrate here that the nanoscale ordering of individual molecular linkers can combine to program the structure of microscale assemblies. Specifically, we experimentally show that covering initially isotropic microdroplets with

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colloidsself-assemblyself-organization

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PMID34750268
PMCPMC8609544

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