DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Nanocrystal assemblies: Current advances and open problems

CL Bassani, G Van Anders, U Banin, D Baranov… - ACS …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as
building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for …

Learning without neurons in physical systems

M Stern, A Murugan - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Learning is traditionally studied in biological or computational systems. The power of
learning frameworks in solving hard inverse problems provides an appealing case for the …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: from intricate structures to functional materials

MA Boles, M Engel, DV Talapin - Chemical reviews, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Memory formation in matter

NC Keim, JD Paulsen, Z Zeravcic, S Sastry… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019‏ - APS
Memory formation in matter is a theme of broad intellectual relevance; it sits at the
interdisciplinary crossroads of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science. Memory …

Design principles of 3D epigenetic memory systems

JA Owen, D Osmanović, L Mirny - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Cells remember their identities, in part, by using epigenetic marks—chemical modifications
placed along the genome. How can mark patterns remain stable over cell generations …

Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of non-equilibrium self-assembly

CG Evans, J O'Brien, E Winfree, A Murugan - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Inspired by biology's most sophisticated computer, the brain, neural networks constitute a
profound reformulation of computational principles,–. Analogous high-dimensional, highly …

Self-organized architectures from assorted DNA-framed nanoparticles

W Liu, J Halverson, Y Tian, AV Tkachenko, O Gang - Nature chemistry, 2016‏ - nature.com
The science of self-assembly has undergone a radical shift from asking questions about why
individual components self-organize into ordered structures, to manipulating the resultant …

A synthetic bacterial cell-cell adhesion toolbox for programming multicellular morphologies and patterns

DS Glass, IH Riedel-Kruse - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Synthetic multicellular systems hold promise as models for understanding natural
development of biofilms and higher organisms and as tools for engineering complex multi …

Theory and simulation of multiphase coexistence in biomolecular mixtures

WM Jacobs - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates constitute a newly recognized form of spatial organization in
living cells. Although many condensates are believed to form as a result of phase …