title: Emulating biology: building nanostructures from the bottom up.
abstract: The biological approach to nanotechnology has produced self-assembled objects, arrays and devices; likewise, it has achieved the recognition of inorganic systems and the control of their growth. Can these approaches now be integrated to produce useful systems?
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. ned.seeman@nyu.edu
authors.forename: Nadrian C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Seeman
authors.forename: Angela M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Belcher
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation
chemical_list: D004247:DNA