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Reversible Switching of DNA–Gold Nanoparticle Aggregation
Author(s) -
Hazarika Pompi,
Ceyhan Bülent,
Niemeyer Christof M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200461887
Subject(s) - nanoparticle , linker , colloidal gold , aggregate (composite) , nanotechnology , chemistry , dna , computer science , materials science , biochemistry , operating system
Switchable formation of materials : DNA‐modified gold nanoparticles can aggregate reversibly by the employment of “fueling” oligomers that hybridize with the linker oligomers within the aggregated nanoparticles (see scheme). This approach paves the way to the generation of programmable functional materials.