Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers T Bellini, G Zanchetta, TP Fraccia, R Cerbino, E Tsai, GP Smith, MJ Moran, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (4), 1110-1115, 2012 | 90 | 2012 |
Abiotic ligation of DNA oligomers templated by their liquid crystal ordering TP Fraccia, GP Smith, G Zanchetta, E Paraboschi, Y Yi, DM Walba, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 6424, 2015 | 80 | 2015 |
Liquid crystal ordering and isotropic gelation in solutions of four-base-long DNA oligomers TP Fraccia, GP Smith, L Bethge, G Zanchetta, G Nava, S Klussmann, ... ACS nano 10 (9), 8508-8516, 2016 | 66 | 2016 |
Liquid Crystal Coacervates Composed of Short Double-Stranded DNA and Cationic Peptides TP Fraccia, TZ Jia ACS Nano 14 (11), 15071-15082, 2020 | 65 | 2020 |
Liquid Crystal Coacervates Composed of Short Double Stranded DNA and Cationic Peptides TP Fraccia, TZ Jia chemRxiv, 2020 | 65 | 2020 |
Backbone-free duplex-stacked monomer nucleic acids exhibiting Watson–Crick selectivity GP Smith, TP Fraccia, M Todisco, G Zanchetta, C Zhu, E Hayden, T Bellini, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (33), E7658-E7664, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
Nonenzymatic polymerization into long linear RNA templated by liquid crystal self-assembly M Todisco, TP Fraccia, GP Smith, A Corno, L Bethge, S Klussmann, ... ACS nano 12 (10), 9750-9762, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
Liquid Crystal Peptide/DNA Coacervates in the Context of Prebiotic Molecular Evolution TZ Jia, TP Fraccia Crystals 10 (11), 964, 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
Liquid–liquid crystalline phase separation in biomolecular solutions TP Fraccia, G Zanchetta Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 56, 101500, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
Evidence of liquid crystal–assisted abiotic ligation of nucleic acids TP Fraccia, G Zanchetta, V Rimoldi, NA Clark, T Bellini Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 45, 51-68, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
Non-enzymatic oligonucleotide ligation in coacervate protocells sustains compartment-content coupling TP Fraccia, N Martin Nature Communications 14 (1), 2606, 2023 | 25 | 2023 |
Elasticity and viscosity of DNA liquid crystals L Lucchetti, TP Fraccia, G Nava, T Turiv, F Ciciulla, L Bethge, ... ACS Macro Letters 9 (7), 1034-1039, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
Non-linear optical measurement of the twist elastic constant in thermotropic and DNA lyotropic chiral nematics L Lucchetti, TP Fraccia, F Ciciulla, T Bellini Scientific reports 7 (1), 4959, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
Phase separations, liquid crystal ordering and molecular partitioning in mixtures of PEG and DNA oligomers S Di Leo, M Todisco, T Bellini, TP Fraccia Liquid Crystals 45 (13-15), 2306-2318, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
Liquid crystal ordering of four-base-long DNA oligomers with both G–C and A–T pairing TP Fraccia, GP Smith, NA Clark, T Bellini Crystals 8 (1), 5, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
A liquid crystal world for the origins of life TZ Jia, T Bellini, N Clark, TP Fraccia Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 6 (6), 557-569, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
Giant optical nonlinearity in DNA lyotropic liquid crystals L Lucchetti, TP Fraccia, F Ciciulla, F Simoni, T Bellini Optics Express 25 (21), 25951-25959, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
Liquid Crystal ordering of DNA Dickerson Dodecamer duplexes with different 5’-Phosphate terminations M Todisco, GP Smith, TP Fraccia Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 683 (1), 69-80, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
Pairing statistics and melting of random DNA oligomers: Finding your partner in superdiverse environments S Di Leo, S Marni, CA Plata, TP Fraccia, GP Smith, A Maritan, S Suweis, ... PLoS computational biology 18 (4), e1010051, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
Liquid Crystal Phase Assembly in Peptide-DNA Coacervates as a Mechanism for Primitive Emergence of Structural Complexity TZ Jia, TP Fraccia ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |