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Geometrical self-assembly

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DNA origami tiles with complementary shapes have been designed and assembled into large nanostructures through the geometrically controlled stacking of their helices.

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Figure 1: Using shape to programme interactions between supramoleular assemblies.

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Turberfield, A. Geometrical self-assembly. Nature Chem 3, 580–581 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1097

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