Crisscross Polymerization (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Crisscross Polymerization

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Strictly seed (green)-dependent crisscross polymerization enables the formation of diversely shaped tubes and coiled ribbons (grey), whereby elongating ribbons with different diameters are closed in different patterns by short complimentary single-stranded DNA overhangs (yellow and blue). This series of TEM images shows a variety of elongated nanoconstructs with the scale bar measuring 100 nanometers.

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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