Issue 20, 2011
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Chemical Communications

A new strategy improves assembly efficiency of DNA mono-modified gold nanoparticles†

Tao Zhang,ab   Ping Chen,b   Yawei Sun,a   Yongzheng Xing,ac   Yang Yang,c   Yuanchen Dong,a   Lijin Xu,b   Zhongqiang Yang*a  and  Dongsheng Liu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
E-mail: liudongsheng@tsinghua.edu.cn

b Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, P. R. China

c National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, P. R. China

Abstract

We report a new strategy to prepare DNA mono-modified gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). By adding a short rigid duplex proximal to the AuNPs, the assembly efficiency of DNA mono-modified AuNPs with Y-shaped DNA could be improved nearly 6-fold.

Graphical abstract: A new strategy improves assembly efficiency of DNA mono-modified gold nanoparticles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC11337B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Mar 2011
Accepted
24 Mar 2011
First published
15 Apr 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 5774-5776

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A new strategy improves assembly efficiency of DNA mono-modified gold nanoparticles

T. Zhang, P. Chen, Y. Sun, Y. Xing, Y. Yang, Y. Dong, L. Xu, Z. Yang and D. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 5774 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11337B

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