{"id":224898,"date":"2025-11-11T21:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/engineering-colloidal-crystals-molecule-by-molecule"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:06:59","slug":"engineering-colloidal-crystals-molecule-by-molecule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/engineering-colloidal-crystals-molecule-by-molecule","title":{"rendered":"Engineering colloidal crystals molecule by molecule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-colloidal-crystals-molecule-by-molecule2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists built these tiny diamond crystals using a technique known as DNA origami, in which DNA molecules fold themselves into elaborate shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in this 2024 <i>Science<\/i> Perspective on OrigamiDay.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DNA particles are programmed to assemble with precision into complex lattices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adp4370#con1\"> Zhe Li<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adp4370#con2\"> Chengde Mao<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adp4370#tab-contributors\">Authors Info &amp; Affiliations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Science<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Vol 384, Issue 6697<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/engineering-colloidal-crystals-molecule-by-molecule\">Continue reading \u201cEngineering colloidal crystals molecule by molecule\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists built these tiny diamond crystals using a technique known as DNA origami, in which DNA molecules fold themselves into elaborate shapes. Learn more in this 2024 Science Perspective on OrigamiDay. DNA particles are programmed to assemble with precision into complex lattices. Zhe Li and Chengde Mao Authors Info &amp; Affiliations Science Vol 384, Issue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224898","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}