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@INPROCEEDINGS{Stiakakis:858903,
      author       = {Stiakakis, Emmanuel},
      title        = {{M}olecular engineering of model soft-matter systems using
                      {DNA}},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2018-07739},
      year         = {2018},
      abstract     = {DNA is widely recognized as a promising engineering
                      material in the field of nanotechnology and material
                      science. Here, I will show that using DNA as building block
                      for constructing molecules with complex architecture in the
                      field of soft matter can offer a great opportunity to obtain
                      well-defined monodisperse systems with a wide variety of
                      particle shape, stiffness, charge, etc. A small library of
                      well-defined DNA-based macromolecular assemblies will be
                      presented, focused on an all-DNA chain-stick construct which
                      consists of a gapped DNA duplex - with contour length near
                      DNA’s persistence length - where two stiff double-stranded
                      DNA segments of equal length are connected by a
                      single-stranded flexible spacer. Trough a combined
                      experimental and numerical study, we provide unambiguous
                      evidence for the stabilization of an unconventional
                      smectic-A liquid crystal phase, where most of the
                      constituent molecules attain a folded configuration. Our
                      results demonstrate that DNA as a building block offers an
                      exquisitely tunable means to engineer a potentially rich
                      assortment of lyotropic liquid crystals that can be
                      precisely designed on subnanometer level.},
      month         = {Nov},
      date          = {2018-11-20},
      organization  = {Juelich Soft Matter Days, Jülich
                       (Germany), 20 Nov 2018 - 23 Nov 2018},
      subtyp        = {Invited},
      cin          = {ICS-3},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-3-20110106},
      pnm          = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/858903},
}