Molecular self-assembly: the creation of a pyrochlore crystal (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Molecular self-assembly: the creation of a pyrochlore crystal

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Figure: A schematics of the design pipeline for self-assembled structures: A snapshot from a simulation of DNA building blocks assembling into a target crystal lattice, shown experimentally realized on the right (scale bar: 1000 nanometers = 1 micrometer = 1/1,000,000 meters). 

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Petr Sulc lab

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