Molecular self-assembly



 

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Molecular self-assembly is the assembly of folding.

Supramolecular Systems

Molecular self-assembly is a key concept in supramolecular assemblies demonstrate that a variety of different shapes and sizes can be obtained using molecular self-assembly.

Biological Systems

Molecular self-assembly is crucial to the function of cells. It is exhibited in the self-assembly of prion-related neurodegenerative diseases.

Nanotechnology

 

Molecular self-assembly is an important aspect of bottom-up approaches to molecular nanotechnology, microchips of the future might be made by molecular self-assembly. An advantage to constructing nanostructure using molecular self-assembly for biological materials is that they will degrade back into individual molecules that can be broken down by the body.

DNA nanotechnology

Main article: DNA nanotechnology

DNA nanotechnology is an area of current research that uses the bottom-up, self-assebly approach for nanotechnological goals. DNA nanotechnology uses the unique streptavidin proteins.

External

  • Molecular Self-Assembly papers
  • Beyond molecules: Self-assembly of mesoscopic and macroscopic components
  • Whitesides, G. M. & Grzyboski, B. (2002) Science 295, 2418-2421.
  • Rothemund PWK, Papadakis N, Winfree E (2004) Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA Sierpinski Triangles. PLoS Biol 2(12)
  • C2 Wiki: Self Assembly from a computer programming perspective.
  • Mohammadzadegan R, Sheikhi MH (2007) DNA Nano-Gears Molecular Simulation 33(13); 1071-1081.


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