Figure 19.
Static DNA–polymer nanostructure assemblies mediated by the hydrophobicity of the polymer and DNA hybridization. (A) Construction of micelle-of-cubes by HE-DNA strands with different polymer lengths attached to C4.171 Adapted with permission from ref (171). Copyright 2014 American Chemical Society. (B) Schematic illustrations of the self-assembly of sequence-defined hydrophobic polymers on DNA cages.79 The magenta circles represent hydrophilic monomers, and blue denotes hydrophobic monomers. “N” presents the number of hydrophobic repeats. Adapted with permission from ref (79). Copyright 2016 American Chemical Society.