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NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages 918-922Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2877
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- NIH [AI083115, RR021886, DE016516]
- Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
- W.M. Keck Foundation
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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The formation of diamond structures from tailorable building blocks is an important goal in colloidal crystallization because the non-compact diamond lattice is an essential component of photonic crystals for the visible-light range(1-7). However, designing nanoparticle systems that self-assemble into non-compact structures has proved difficult. Although several methods have been proposed(7-10), single-component nanoparticle assembly of a diamond structure has not been reported. Binary systems, in which at least one component is arranged in a diamond lattice, provide alternatives(7,11,12), but control of inter-particle interactions is critical to this approach. DNA has been used for this purpose in a number of systems(13-18). Here we show the creation of a non-compact lattice by DNA-programmed crystallization using surface-modified Q beta phage capsid particles and gold nanoparticles, engineered to have similar effective radii. When combined with the proper connecting oligonucleotides, these components form NaTl-type colloidal crystalline structures containing interpenetrating organic and inorganic diamond lattices, as determined by small-angle X-ray scattering. DNA control of assembly is therefore shown to be compatible with particles possessing very different properties, as long as they are amenable to surface modification.
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