Aalto University School of Science, Aalto FI-00076

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Assembly of Gold Nanorods into Chiral Plasmonic Metamolecules Using DNA Origami Templates

Yike Huang¹, Minh-Kha Nguyen^1,2, Anton Kuzyk¹

¹Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Aalto FI-00076, ²Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) University of Technology, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh City 700000

We describe the detailed protocol for the DNA origami-based assembly of gold nanorods into chiral plasmonic metamolecules with strong chiroptical responses. The protocol is not limited to chiral configurations and can be easily adapted for the fabrication of various plasmonic architectures.