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Yuka Eguchi1, Tomoharu Kato, Tsutomu Tanaka
1Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. tmarutcm@crystal.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 29, 2017
Abstract:
We report a DNA-gold nanoparticle (AuNP) hybrid hydrogel in which the AuNPs crosslink enzymatically synthesized DNA to form a gel network. PCR-elongated DNA and AuNPs act as a one-dimensional polymer and cross-linkers, respectively. The DNA-AuNP hydrogel has the functional properties of both long DNA and the AuNPs.
