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NANO LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 3521-3526Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl901710n
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- NSF [CBET-0827822]
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Dynamic self-assembly using responsive smart materials such as DNA is a promising route toward reversible assembly and patterning of nanostructures for error-corrected fabrication, enhanced biosensors, drug delivery and gene therapy. DNA linkers were designed with strategically placed mismatches, allowing rapid attachment and release from a surface in a counterion-screened electric field. These electrostatic fields are Inherently highly localized, directing assembly with nanometer precision while avoiding harmful electrochemical reactions. We show that depending on the sign of the applied field, the DNA hybridization density is strongly enhanced or diminished due to the high negative charge density of immobilized DNA. This use of dynamic fields rather than static templates enables fabrication of heterogeneously hybridized electrodes with different functional moieties, despite the use of Identical linker sequences.
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