DNA-capped nanoparticles crystallize into uniform microcrystals of Wulff polyhedra when cooled slowly through the melting temperature of the DNA linkers.
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16 April 2014
In the version of this News & Views article previously published, in the affiliation for Shawn J. Tan, 'A*STAR' was missing. Corrected in the online versions after print.
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Hamada, S., Tan, S. & Luo, D. DNA-bonded 'atoms'. Nature Mater 13, 121–122 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3876
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