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Designer Nanomaterials through Programmable Assembly

Journal Article · · Angewandte Chemie

Nanoparticles have long been recognized for their unique properties, leading to exciting potential applications across optics, electronics, magnetism, and catalysis. These specific functions often require a designed organization of particles, which includes the type of order as well as placement and relative orientation of particles of the same or different kinds. DNA nanotechnology offers the ability to introduce highly addressable bonds, tailor particle interactions, and control the geometry of bindings motifs. Here, we discuss how developments in structural DNA nanotechnology have enabled greater control over 1D, 2D, and 3D particle organizations through programmable assembly. This Review focuses on how the use of DNA binding between nanocomponents and DNA structural motifs has progressively allowed the rational formation of prescribed particle organizations. Here, we offer insight into how DNA-based motifs and elements can be further developed to control particle organizations and how particles and DNA can be integrated into nanoscale building blocks, so-called “material voxels”, to realize designer nanomaterials with desired functions.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; SC0008772
OSTI ID:
1854500
Report Number(s):
BNL-222832-2022-JAAM
Journal Information:
Angewandte Chemie, Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 134; ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher:
German Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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