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J Math Chem. 2015 Jan;53(1):183-199. doi: 10.1007/s10910-014-0420-3.

Synthesising Topological Links.

Journal of mathematical chemistry

Nils A Baas, Nadrian C Seeman, Andrew Stacey

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
  2. Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. Tel.: +1-212-998-8395.

PMID: 25678732 PMCID: PMC4321808 DOI: 10.1007/s10910-014-0420-3

Abstract

We discuss the chemical synthesis of topological links, in particular higher order links which have the Brunnian property (namely that removal of any one component unlinks the entire system). Furthermore, we suggest how to obtain both two dimensional and three dimensional objects (surfaces and solids, respectively) which also have this Brunnian property.

Keywords: Brunnian links; Hopf links; Synthesizing double stranded DNA nodes; Synthetic DNA topology of links; carpets and solids

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