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DNA Origami-Mediated Substrate Nanopatterning of Inorganic Structures for Sensing Applications
Published on: September 27, 2019
Nanoscale patterning of polymers on DNA origami
Nico Alleva1, Pia Winterwerber1, Colette J Whitfield1
1Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany. david.ng@mpip-mainz.mpg.de.
Abstract:
The combination of DNA-origami and synthetic polymers paves the way to a new class of structurally precise biohybrid nanomaterials for diverse applications. Herein, we introduce the grafting to method with high conversions (70-90%) under ambient conditions to generate DNA-polymer conjugates, which can hybridized precisely to DNA-origami architectures. We generated homo and block copolymers from three different polymer families (acrylates, methacrylates and acrylamides), coupled them to single stranded DNA (ssDNA) and pattern different DNA-origami architectures to demonstrate the formation of precise surface nanopatterns.

