Selected publications on the engineering of atomically precise structures from biomolecular materials
An annotated bibliography of publications describing approaches to the construction of atomically-precise nanometer-scale structures via chemical and biological synthesis.
Publications (with date, author, and topic):
(1981 Drexler) Protein engineering as a path to advanced nanotechnologies
(1983 Pabo) Viewing protein design as “inverse folding”
(1988 Regan & DeGrado) A first success in de novo protein design
(1989 Noren et al.) New building blocks for protein engineering
(1990 Hecht et al.) De novo design of a native-like protein
(1997 Dahiyat & Mayo) De novo protein design using fully automated sequence selection
(1997 DeGrado) Commentary: “A banner year for de novo protein design”
(1998 Benner et al.) New building blocks for nucleic acid engineering
(1998 Seeman) Review of DNA nanotechnology
(2002 Seeman) Building nanostructures by emulating biology
(2003 Alberti & Mergny) A DNA-based nanomachine
(2003 Kuhlman) First design of a protein with a novel backbone topology
(2003 Seeman) Structural DNA nanotechnology for nanoelectronics, nanorobotics, and smart materials
(2004 Shih et al.) Design and synthesis of a rigid DNA octahedron
