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Nanoparticle assembly

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The DNA-mediated assembly of anisotropic gold nanoparticles shows the importance of particle shape in the controlled formation of DNA–nanoparticle superlattices.

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Figure 1: A schematic of a functionalized gold nanoparticle.
Figure 2: An assembled crystal of DNA-functionalized nanoparticles.

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  1. Sharon C. Glotzer and Joshua A. Anderson are in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2300 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Mchigan 48109-2136, USA. sglotzer@umich.edu,

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