Scholars@Duke
Daniel Duke

Selected Publications

Modular programming of interaction and geometric specificity enables assembly of complex DNA origami nanostructures.

Journal Article Nature communications · December 2025 Self-assembly of nanoscale building blocks with programmable geometries and interactions offers a powerful route to engineer materials that mimic the complexity of biological structures. DNA origami provides an exceptional platform for this purpose, enabli ... Full text Cite

Dynamic DNA superstructures with emergent functions.

Journal Article Nanoscale horizons · October 2025 DNA nanotechnology enables the precise construction of intricate nanoscale structures. Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in incorporating dynamic functionalities into these nanostructures. Concurrently, innovative strategies hav ... Full text Cite

Mechanism of DNA origami folding elucidated by mesoscopic simulations.

Journal Article Nature communications · April 2024 Many experimental and computational efforts have sought to understand DNA origami folding, but the time and length scales of this process pose significant challenges. Here, we present a mesoscopic model that uses a switchable force field to capture the beh ... Full text Cite

Metal Halide Perovskite Heterostructures: Blocking Anion Diffusion with Single-Layer Graphene.

Journal Article Journal of the American Chemical Society · February 2023 The development of metal halide perovskite/perovskite heterostructures is hindered by rapid interfacial halide diffusion leading to mixed alloys rather than sharp interfaces. To circumvent this outcome, we developed an ion-blocking layer consisting of sing ... Full text Cite