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Assembly of Gold Nanorods into Chiral Plasmonic Metamolecules Using DNA Origami Templates
Published on: March 5, 2019
pH-driven conformational switch of "i-motif" DNA for the reversible assembly of gold nanoparticles
Jaswinder Sharma1, Rahul Chhabra, Hao Yan
1Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
Abstract:
Herein we demonstrate that gold nanoparticles conjugated to "i-motif" DNA behave like a pH dependent switch that undergoes reversible aggregations which can be easily visualized by the naked eye.

