dna-origami-mediated-substrate-nanopatterning-inorganic-structures

DNA Origami-Mediated Substrate Nanopatterning of Inorganic Structures for Sensing Applications

Structural DNA nanotechnology provides a viable route for building from the bottom-up using DNA as construction material. The most common DNA ...

Aalto University

Structural DNA nanotechnology provides unique, well-controlled, versatile, and highly addressable motifs and templates for assembling materials at the nanoscale. These methods to build from the bottom-up using DNA as a construction material are based on programmable and fully predictable Watson-Crick base pairing. Researchers have adopted these techniques to an increasing extent for creating numerous DNA nanostructures for a variety of uses ranging from nanoelectronics to drug-delivery applications. Recently, an increasing effort has been put into attaching nanoparticles (the size range of 1-20 nm) to the accurate DNA motifs and into creating metallic nanostructures (typically 20-100 nm) using designer DNA nanoshapes as molds or stencils. By combining nanoparticles with the superior addressability of DNA-based scaffolds, it is possible to form well-ordered materials with intriguing and completely new optical, plasmonic, electronic, and magnetic properties. This focused review discusses the DNA structure-directed nanoparticle assemblies covering the wide range of different one-, two-, and three-dimensional systems.

DNA nanostructure-directed assembly of metal nanoparticle superlattices.

The arrangements of metal nanoparticles into spatially ordered structures is still challenging, but DNA-based nanostructures have proven to be feasible building blocks in directing the higher-ordered arrangements of nanoparticles. However, an additional DNA functionalization of the particles is often required to link them to the DNA frames. Herein, we show that ordered 3D metal nanoparticle superlattices could be formed also by plainly employing electrostatic interactions between particles and DNA nanostructures. By utilizing the negatively charged DNA origami surface, we were able to assemble 6-helix bundle DNA origami and cationic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) into well-ordered 3D tetragonal superlattices. Further, the results reveal that shape and charge complementarity between the building blocks are crucial parameters for lattice formation. Our method is not limited to only AuNPs and the origami shapes presented here, and could therefore be used in construction of a variety of functional materials.

Sofia Julin

Biohybrid Materials,
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems,
Biohybrid Materials, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems

Aalto University

DNA Origami-Mediated Substrate Nanopatterning of Inorganic Structures for Sensing Applications

Sofia Julin

.css-o250i3{font-size:18px;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;line-height:21.6px;}Biohybrid Materials,Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems,Biohybrid Materials, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems

Aalto University

DNA Origami-Mediated Substrate Nanopatterning of Inorganic Structures for Sensing Applications

Biohybrid Materials,
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems,
Biohybrid Materials, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems