{"id":218397,"date":"2025-07-21T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-twist-dna-into-self-building-nanostructures-that-could-transform-technology"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:10:06","slug":"scientists-twist-dna-into-self-building-nanostructures-that-could-transform-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-twist-dna-into-self-building-nanostructures-that-could-transform-technology","title":{"rendered":"Scientists twist DNA into self-building nanostructures that could transform technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-twist-dna-into-self-building-nanostructures-that-could-transform-technology2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used DNA&amp;apos;s self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moir\u00e9 superlattices at the nanometer scale\u2014structures that twist and layer like never before. With clever molecular \u201cblueprints,\u201d they\u2019ve created customizable lattices featuring patterns such as honeycombs and squares, all with remarkable precision. These new architectures are more than just scientific art\u2014they open doors to revolutionizing how we control light, sound, electrons, and even spin in next-gen materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have used DNA&amp;apos;s self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moir\u00e9 superlattices at the nanometer scale\u2014structures that twist and layer like never before. With clever molecular \u201cblueprints,\u201d they\u2019ve created customizable lattices featuring patterns such as honeycombs and squares, all with remarkable precision. These new architectures are more than just scientific art\u2014they open doors to revolutionizing how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}