Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Modular Design of Programmable Mechanofluorescent DNA Hydrogels

  • Remi Merindol,
  • Giovanne Delechiave,
  • Laura Heinen,
  • Luiz Henrique Catalani,
  • Andreas Walther

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08428-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Mechanosensitive materials typically lack complex response patterns due to difficult synthetic methods. Here, the authors introduce FRET-based DNA tension probes into macroscopic 3D DNA hydrogels to prepare mechanofluorescent materials with programmable sacrificial bonds and stress relaxation behaviour.