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Biomaterials

Biomaterials

Make or break: building soft materials with DNA

(Courtesy: Dr Victor Padilla-Sanchez, PhD / Washington Metropolitan University / Science Photo Library)
09 Mar 2021
Taken from the March 2021 issue of Physics World.

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

Call me naive, but until a few years ago I had never realized you can actually buy DNA. As a physici

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Davide Michieletto is a Royal Society university research fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK, e-mail davide.michieletto@ed.ac.uk
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