Orthogonal assembly of nanoparticle building blocks on dip-pen nanolithographically generated templates of DNA

L M Demers; S J Park; T A Taton; Z Li; C A Mirkin

doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20010817)40:16<3071::AID-ANIE3071>3.0.CO;2-S

Orthogonal assembly of nanoparticle building blocks on dip-pen nanolithographically generated templates of DNA

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2001;40(16):3071-3. doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010817)40:16<3071::AID-ANIE3071>3.0.CO;2-S.

Authors

L M Demers¹, S J Park, T A Taton, Z Li, C A Mirkin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA, Fax: (+1) 847-467-5123.

PMID: 12203653
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010817)40:16<3071::AID-ANIE3071>3.0.CO;2-S

Abstract

Nanoscale construction work with DNA: Dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) is used to generate nanostructures which can be subsequently functionalized with oligonucleotides a' and b' and used to assemble, in an orthogonal manner, gold nanoparticles (a, b in scheme) functionalized with sequences complementary to the DPN-generated structures.

Keywords: DNA recognition; gold; monolayers; nanolithography; nanostructures; self-assembly.