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Some recent exciting publications are highlighted here. For a full list of publications, please check out Casey’s profile on Google Scholar

Recent Research Highlights

2025

Nanopore detection of single-nucleotide RNA mutations and modifications with programmable nanolatches

Li, Y., Meng, S.C., Wang, Y., Platnich, C.M., Earle, M.K., Mylona, E., Naydenova, P., Baker, S., Zhu, J., Keyser, U.F.*

Nature Nanotechnology

2024

Chemical annealing restructures RNA for nanopore detection

Platnich, C.M.*, Earle, M.K., Keyser, U.F.*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Automated Synthesis of DNA Nanostructures

Islas, P.^, Platnich, C.M.^, Gidi, Y., Karimi, R., Ginot, L., Saliba, D., Luo, X., Cosa, G.*, Sleiman, H.F. (^ co-first authors)

Advanced Materials

Heat-activated growth of metastable and length-defined DNA fibers expands traditional polymer assembly

Dore, M.D., Rafique, M.G., Yang, T.P., Zorman, M., Platnich, C.M., Xu, P., Trinh, T., Rizzuto, F.J., Cosa, G., Li, J., Guarné, A., Sleiman, H.F.

Nature Communications

2023

DNA carrier-assisted molecular ping-pong in an asymmetric nanopore

Zheng, F., Alawami, M., Zhu, J., Platnich, C.M., Sha, J., Keyser, U.F., Chen, K.*

Nano Letters

2022

Emerging approaches to DNA data storage: challenges and prospects

Doricchi, A.^, Platnich, C.M.^, Gimpel, A.^, Horn, F.^, Earle, M.K., Lanzavecchia, G., Cortajarena, A.L., Liz-Marzán, L.M., Liu, N., Heckel, R., Grass, R.N., Krahne, R., Keyser, U.F.*, Garoli, D.* (^ co-first authors)

ACS Nano

2021

A dissipative pathway for the structural evolution of DNA fibres

Rizzuto, F.J.^, Platnich, C.M.^, Luo, X., Shen, Y., Dore, M.D., Lachance-Brais, C., Guarné, A., Cosa, G., Sleiman, H.F.* (^ co-first authors)

Nature Chemistry

Thermosetting supramolecular polymerization of compartmentalized DNA fibers with stereo sequence and length control

Dore, M.D., Trinh, T., Zorman, M. de Rochambeau, D., Platnich, C.M., Xu, P., Luo, X., Remington, J.M., Toader, V., Cosa, G., Li, J., Sleiman, H.F.*

Chem

2020

Single-molecule methods in structural DNA nanotechnology

Platnich, C.M., Rizzuto, F.J., Cosa, G.*, Sleiman, H.F.*

Chemical Society Reviews