Abstract
Living things are great models for manufacturing and products because they have excellent functions and systems, which we cannot turn out in our recent technologies yet. Biomimetics is based on scientific technologies inspired from structures, functions, productive processes, or systems in living things. We are interested in a self-assembly as a bottom-up process and emergent functions from hierarchical structures, those are very common in nature. Then we have focused on DNA, which is one of the essential parts on lives, and worked on the “DNA-templated syntheses”.
In this paper, several studies on formations of nano-structures and assemblies and alignments of molecules or nanoparticles using high molecular recognition ability as one of the excellent functions on DNA, preparations of nanoparticles or nanowires using DNA as templates, and transformations of base sequence information into positional or structural information through the base selective metallization are reviewed as DNA mimetics.
