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Assembly of Gold Nanorods into Chiral Plasmonic Metamolecules Using DNA Origami Templates
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Assembly of heterogeneous functional nanomaterials on DNA origami scaffolds
Risheng Wang1, Colin Nuckolls, Shalom J Wind
1Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. rw2399@columbia.edu
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 12, 2012
Abstract:
One on each side: gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are integrated on a single DNA origami scaffold. Streptavidin-functionalized QDs bind to biotin anchors on one side of the DNA origami, while DNA-coated AuNPs bind through DNA hybridization to single-stranded DNA on the other side of the scaffold. This approach offers a new path toward the organization of complex systems consisting of disparate materials.

