Polymer tube nanoreactors via DNA-origami templated synthesis

Yu Tokura; Sean Harvey; Xuemei Xu; Chaojian Chen; Svenja Morsbach; Katrin Wunderlich; George Fytas; Yuzhou Wu; David Y. W. Ng; Tanja Weil

doi:10.1039/C7CC09620H

Polymer tube nanoreactors via DNA-origami templated synthesis†

Yu Tokura,^ab Sean Harvey,^a Xuemei Xu,^c Chaojian Chen,

^ab Svenja Morsbach,

^a Katrin Wunderlich,

^a George Fytas,^a Yuzhou Wu,

*^ac David Y. W. Ng

*^a and Tanja Weil

*^ab

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^a Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
E-mail: Weil@mpip-mainz.mpg.de, David.Ng@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

^b Inorganic Chemistry I, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
E-mail: tanja.weil@uni-ulm.de

^c Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan, P. R. China

Abstract

We describe the stepwise synthesis of precise polymeric objects programmed by a 3D DNA tube transformed from a common 2D DNA tile as a precise biotemplate for atom transfer radical polymerization. The catalytic interior space of the DNA tube was utilized for synthesizing a bio-inspired polymer, polydopamine.

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Polymer tube nanoreactors via DNA-origami templated synthesis†

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