{"id":2052,"date":"2004-02-12T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=810"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:35:43","slug":"nano-tensegrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/12\/nano-tensegrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nano-tensegrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2004-02\/sri-n021004.php\">Scientists&#8230; create single, clonable strand of DNA that folds into an octahedron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Similar to a piece of paper folded into an origami box, the strand of DNA that Shih and Joyce designed folds into a compact octahedron &#8211; a structure consisting of twelve edges, six vertices, and eight triangular faces. The structure is about 22 nanometers in overall diameter.<\/p>\n<p>These miniscule[sic] octahedral structures are the culmination of a design process that started one day when Shih was building a number of shapes with flexible ball and stick models in the laboratory. This exercise attracted his attention to an important structural principle: frames built with triangular faces are rigid, while cubes and other frames built with non-triangular faces are easily deformed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org\/introduction_to_bmf.htm\">Buckminster Fuller<\/a> would have loved this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists&#8230; create single, clonable strand of DNA that folds into an octahedron: Similar to a piece of paper folded into an origami box, the strand of DNA that Shih and Joyce designed folds into a compact octahedron &#8211; a structure consisting of twelve edges, six vertices, and eight triangular faces. The structure is about 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}