DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool to precisely design and control
molecular circuits, machines and nanostructures. A major goal in this field is to build devices …

G-Quadruplexes attract growing interest as functional constituents in biology, chemistry,
nanotechnology, and material science. In particular, the reversible dynamic reconfiguration …

Photoresponsive nucleic acids attract growing interest as functional constituents in materials
science. Integration of photoisomerizable units into DNA strands provides an ideal handle …

Stimuli‐responsive designs with exogenous stimuli enable remote and reversible control of
DNA nanostructures, which break many limitations of static nanostructures and inspired …

Nucleic acid based, out-of-equilibrium, dissipative networks driven by nucleic acid fuels
coupled to the nicking enzyme, Nt. BbvCI, are presented. One set of experiments includes a …

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) represents an important class of molecular building blocks for
the assembly of supramolecular functional systems primarily due to its molecular recognition …

Dynamic, dissipative reactions play important roles in biological processes, and emulating
such biological processes by artificial circuits and networks is a challenging topic in the area …

Taking inspiration from natural systems, in which molecular switches are ubiquitous in the
biochemistry regulatory network, we aim to design and construct synthetic molecular …

A rich variety of smart materials developed via supramolecular assembly strategies have
been introduced in the past decades. However, most materials reside in the thermodynamic …

Living systems consist of complex transient cellular networks guiding structural, catalytic,
and switchable functions driven by auxiliary triggers, such as chemical or light energy inputs …