Hey hey hey hey, it was the DNA
Abstract
The investigation of the emergence of spatial patterning in the density profiles of the individual elements of multicomponent systems was perhaps first popularised in a biophysical context by Turing’s work on embryogenesis in 1952. How molecular-scale properties transpire to produce patterns at larger scales continues to fascinate today. Now a model DNA-nanotube system, whose assemblies have been reported recently by Glaser et al (2016 New J. Phys. 18 055001), promises to reveal insights by allowing the mechanical properties of the underlying macromolecular entities to be controlled independently of their chemical nature.
- Publication:
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New Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/051002
- Bibcode:
- 2016NJPh...18e1002W