Nature Communications (May 2020)

Valence-programmable nanoparticle architectures

  • Sha Sun,
  • Shize Yang,
  • Huolin L. Xin,
  • Dmytro Nykypanchuk,
  • Mingzhao Liu,
  • Honghu Zhang,
  • Oleg Gang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16157-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Assembling nanoparticles into precise architectures by controlling their positions in three-dimensional space is a major challenge in nanoscience. Here, the authors construct complex, preprogrammed clusters of DNA-encoded nanoparticles by coordinating them onto a DNA mesh wireframe.