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Nanoparticle self-assembly

Bonding them all

A general approach for decorating nanoparticles with a highly dense shell of DNA linkers expands the range of building blocks that can be used for DNA-mediated nanoparticle self-assembly.

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Figure 1: Synthesis of nanoparticle-based PAEs.
Figure 2: Binary superlattices from arbitrary combinations of QD (blue), Fe3O4 (red) and Au (yellow) PAEs.

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Simon, U. Bonding them all. Nature Mater 12, 694–696 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3715

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