RNA as a stable polymer to build controllable and defined nanostructures for material and biomedical applications.

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Published in Nano Today on October 01, 2015

Authors

Hui Li1, Taek Lee2, Thomas Dziubla3, Fengmei Pi1, Sijin Guo4, Jing Xu5, Chan Li5, Farzin Haque1, Xing-Jie Liang5, Peixuan Guo1

Author Affiliations

1: Nanobiotechnology Center, Markey Cancer Center, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
2: Nanobiotechnology Center, Markey Cancer Center, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
3: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
4: Nanobiotechnology Center, Markey Cancer Center, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
5: Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Nanosafety, CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing 100190, China.

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