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 …

Here we regulate the formation of dissipative assemblies built from DNA using a
merocyanine photoacid that responds to visible light. The operation of our system and the …

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 …

Abstract Dynamic, transient, out-of-equilibrium networks guide cellular genetic, metabolic or
signaling processes. Designing synthetic networks emulating natural processes imposes …

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

Transient, dissipative, aggregation and deaggregation of Au nanoparticles (NPs) or
semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) leading to control over their transient optical properties …