Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

DNA not only plays a vital role in nature as fundamental hereditary material for storing
genetic material, but also serves as well-defined functional material, for example, building …

DNA, when folded into nanostructures with a specific shape, is capable of spacing and
arranging binding sites into a complex geometric pattern with nanometre precision. Here we …

The interaction between light and matter can be controlled efficiently by structuring materials
at a length scale shorter than the wavelength of interest. With the goal to build optical …

It was suggested more than thirty years ago that Watson–Crick base pairing might be used
for the rational design of nanometre-scale structures from nucleic acids. Since then, and …

Abstract The programmability of Watson–Crick base pairing, combined with a decrease in
the cost of synthesis, has made DNA a widely used material for the assembly of molecular …

This review focuses on fundamental advances in DNA origami design and its emerging
applications. For convenience, applications are coarsely categorized into nanofabrication …

The field of RNA nanotechnology has advanced rapidly during the past decade. A variety of
programmable RNA nanoparticles with defined shape, size, and stoichiometry have been …

We describe a simple and robust method to construct complex three-dimensional (3D)
structures by using short synthetic DNA strands that we call “DNA bricks.” In one-step …