Aaron Michelson is the first author of "High-strength, lightweight nano-architected silica," published in Cell Reports Physical Science (Cell Press) and reproduced in abstract form in the source archive DNA-Silica dossier.
Role in this source
Michelson is the named first author ("Aaron Michelson, et al") of the primary paper behind the dossier's headline strength claim. The paper reports the fabrication of silica frameworks with approximately 4–20 nm thick elements by self-assembly and silica templating of DNA origami nanolattices, and in situ micro-compression testing of their mechanical properties.
Caveat
The dossier reproduces only the paper's abstract. No author list, affiliations, or contribution statement beyond "Aaron Michelson, et al" is available from this source. The press article quoted in the dossier attributes the work to the University of Connecticut, Columbia University, and Brookhaven National Laboratory without naming individual authors.
Further reading
Michelson is also first author of a 2024 Science Advances paper that coats DNA-templated silica lattices with metals, oxides and semiconductors. According to its contribution statement, he worked on conceptualization, methodology and investigation, and he is named as a co-inventor on a related pending patent application: Beyond Silica: Coating DNA-Built Nanolattices with Metals, Oxides and Semiconductors by Liquid and Vapour Infiltration (Michelson et al., 2024).
He is also the second author, after Pawel W. Majewski, of a 2021 Science Advances paper reporting that DNA-organised silica-nanoparticle lattices withstand harsh temperature, pressure and radiation conditions: Hardening DNA-Built Nanoparticle Lattices with Silica: The 2021 Resilience Paper Behind the Later Strength Claims (Majewski et al.).
Source notes & attribution
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