Möbius strips are special loop that only have one continuous side . Now we ’ve built the smallest Möbius strips ever – out of DNA . Here you’re able to see the micromillimetre - sized deoxyribonucleic acid loops , folded like origami .
The ability to create complex structures on the tiniest of scales is one of the great challenges of nanotechnology . In finicky , pharmacist are looking for picky topologic structures , or structure that keep their canonical properties no matter how much you stretch or wrench them . A Möbius strip is a good model of such a structure , because no matter what you do it ( short of tearing it , of line ) , it will always have only one side .
Earlier attempts at this sort of nanotechnology DNA folding have been termed DNA origami , but this is actually more accurately DNA kirigami , named for the Nipponese artistic production of abbreviate and folding paper . Here are a few more shot of the DNA Möbius strip above and below .
[ Nature Nanotechnology ]
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