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Chengde Mao is a researcher affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their work spans the primary field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields of study include Ecology, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Biomaterials.

Their research covers several main topics related to molecular and biomolecular sciences. These topics include:

  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • DNA and Biological Computing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials

Chengde Mao has contributed to numerous publications in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Advanced Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nanoscale Horizons
  • Angewandte Chemie

Some of their recent papers are:

  • A poly(thymine)-melamine duplex for the assembly of DNA nanomaterials, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Kidney-Targeted Cytosolic Delivery of siRNA Using a Small-Sized Mirror DNA Tetrahedron for Enhanced Potency, 2020, ACS Central Science
  • Branched kissing loops for the construction of diverse RNA homooligomeric nanostructures, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Structure-Guided Designing Pre-Organization in Bivalent Aptamers, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Transformable Helical Self-Assembly for Cancerous Golgi Apparatus Disruption, 2021, Nano Letters

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ruojie Sha
  • Simon Vecchioni
  • Yoel P. Ohayon
  • Karol Woloszyn
  • Nadrian C. Seeman

Best Publications

  • Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles derived from candle soot.

    Haipeng Liu;Tao Ye;Chengde Mao

  • Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA into symmetric supramolecular polyhedra

    Yu He;Tao Ye;Min Su;Chuan Zhang

  • A nanomechanical device based on the B–Z transition of DNA

    Chengde Mao;Weiqiong Sun;Zhiyong Shen;Nadrian C. Seeman

  • From molecular to macroscopic via the rational design of a self-assembled 3D DNA crystal.

    Jianping Zheng;Jens J. Birktoft;Yi Chen;Tong Wang

  • Logical computation using algorithmic self-assembly of DNA triple-crossover molecules

    Chengde Mao;Thomas H. LaBean;John H. Reif;Nadrian C. Seeman

  • DNA nanotechnology.

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  • Designed Two-Dimensional DNA Holliday Junction Arrays Visualized by Atomic Force Microscopy

    Chengde Mao;Weiqiong Sun;Nadrian C. Seeman

  • Self-assembly of hexagonal DNA two-dimensional (2D) arrays.

    Yu He;Yi Chen;Haipeng Liu;and Alexander E. Ribbe

  • A DNAzyme That Walks Processively and Autonomously along a One‐Dimensional Track

    Ye Tian;Yu He;Yi Chen;Peng Yin

  • Tensegrity: construction of rigid DNA triangles with flexible four-arm DNA junctions.

    Dage Liu;Mingsheng Wang;Zhaoxiang Deng;Richard Walulu

  • Complex wireframe DNA origami nanostructures with multi-arm junction vertices

    Fei Zhang;Shuoxing Jiang;Siyu Wu;Yulin Li

  • Assembly of Borromean rings from DNA

    Chengde Mao;Weiqiong Sun;Nadrian C. Seeman

  • Six-helix bundles designed from DNA.

    Frederick Mathieu;Shiping Liao;Jens Kopatsch;Tong Wang

  • DNA‐Encoded Self‐Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles into One‐Dimensional Arrays

    Zhaoxiang Deng;Ye Tian;Seung-Hyun Lee;Alexander E. Ribbe

  • DNA-Templated Fabrication of 1D Parallel and 2D Crossed Metallic Nanowire Arrays

    Zhaoxiang Deng;Chengde Mao

  • An Autonomous DNA Nanomotor Powered by a DNA Enzyme

    Yi Chen;Mingsheng Wang;Chengde Mao

  • Conformational flexibility facilitates self-assembly of complex DNA nanostructures

    Chuan Zhang;Min Su;Yu He;Xin Zhao

  • Molecular gears: a pair of DNA circles continuously rolls against each other.

    Ye Tian;Chengde Mao

  • A synthetic DNA motor that transports nanoparticles along carbon nanotubes.

    Tae-Gon Cha;Jing Pan;Haorong Chen;Janette Salgado

  • Highly Connected Two-Dimensional Crystals of DNA Six-Point-Stars

    Yu He;Ye Tian;and Alexander E. Ribbe;Chengde Mao

  • Bottom-up Assembly of RNA Arrays and Superstructures as Potential Parts in Nanotechnology.

    Dan Shu;Wulf-Dieter Moll;Zhaoxiang Deng;Chengde Mao

  • A DNA nanomachine based on a duplex-triplex transition

    Yi Chen;Seung-Hyun Lee;Chengde Mao

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadrian C. Seeman
Nadrian C. Seeman New York University
Zhaoxiang Deng
Zhaoxiang Deng University of Science and Technology of China
Hao Yan
Hao Yan Arizona State University
Baoquan Ding
Baoquan Ding National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Jie Song
Jie Song Emory University
Yonggang Ke
Yonggang Ke Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin New York University
Tom Brown
Tom Brown University of Oxford
Keith R. Fox
Keith R. Fox University of Southampton
Peixuan Guo
Peixuan Guo The Ohio State University

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