Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Adenine oligomer directed synthesis of chiral gold nanoparticles

  • Nam Heon Cho,
  • Young Bi Kim,
  • Yoon Young Lee,
  • Sang Won Im,
  • Ryeong Myeong Kim,
  • Jeong Won Kim,
  • Seok Daniel Namgung,
  • Hye-Eun Lee,
  • Hyeohn Kim,
  • Jeong Hyun Han,
  • Hye Won Chung,
  • Yoon Ho Lee,
  • Jeong Woo Han,
  • Ki Tae Nam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31513-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chiral plasmonic nanoparticles are of great interest in nanotechnology. Here, the authors demonstrate chiral shape guidance by single-stranded oligonucleotides during particle growth based on sequence-specific hydrogen bonding within the strand.