Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 9, Issue 44, Pages 10452-10457Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm51289d
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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The compression properties of DNA-nanoparticle assemblies were studied bymeasuring their response to the applied osmotic pressure. The lattices of nanoparticles interconnected with DNA exhibit an isotropic transformation under compression with a remarkably strong decrease of the lattice constant, up to a factor of about 1.8, corresponding to more than 80% of the volume reduction. Using insitu small angle X-ray scattering and optical microscopy, we probe the DNA-induced effective interparticle interactions by measuring themacroscopic and nanoscale compression behaviours as a function of the applied osmotic stress. The force field extracted from experimental data can be well described by a theoretical model that takes into account confinement of DNA chains in the interstitial regions. We show that compression properties of these systems can be tuned via DNA molecular design.
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