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Make or break: building soft materials with DNA

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, , Citation Davide Michieletto 2021 Phys. World 34 (3) 48 DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/34/03/33

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1 A Royal Society university research fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Abstract

DNA molecules are not fixed objects – they are constantly getting broken up and glued back together to adopt new shapes. Davide Michieletto explains how this process can be harnessed to create a new generation of "topologically active" materials

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