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Assembly of Gold Nanorods into Chiral Plasmonic Metamolecules Using DNA Origami Templates
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Chain-like assembly of gold nanoparticles on artificial DNA templates via 'click chemistry'
Monika Fischler1, Alla Sologubenko, Joachim Mayer
1Institut für Anorganische Chemie, RWTH Aachen, Landoltweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 20, 2007
Abstract:
We present a new type of azide-functionalized gold nanoparticle and their coupling to an alkyne-modified DNA duplex using the copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition ('click chemistry'), resulting in a chain-like assembly of nanoparticles on the DNA template.
