Loops and Mazes (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Loops and Mazes

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Self-assembled loop, maze, and tree structures on the surface of DNA tile arrays. Top row, random mazes with three-way and four-way junctions of varying distances between adjacent junctions versus only three-way junctions of a fixed distance between adjacent junctions. Middle row, random trees (each tree has a single loop as the "root") with longer branches of varying lengths versus shorter branches of fixed lengths. Bottom row, random loops with tunable lengths and number of crossings.

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Courtesy of L. Qian

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