Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages 6793-6802Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn301528h
Keywords
DNA; nanoparticle; self-assembly; SAXS; cluster
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- NSF [CNS-0959856]
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [0959856] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We construct nanoparticle dimers linked by DNA. These dimers are basic units in a possible multiscale, hierarchical assembly and serve as a model system to understand DNA-mediated interactions, especially in the nontrivial regime when the nanoparticle and DNA are comparable in their sizes. We examine the structure of nanoparticle dimers in detail by a combination of scattering experiments and molecular simulations. We find that, for a given DNA length, the interparticle separation within the dimer is controlled primarily by the number of linking DNA. We summarize our findings in a simple model that captures the Interplay of the number of DNA bridges, their length, the particle's curvature, and the excluded volume effects. We demonstrate the applicability of the model to our results, without any free parameters. As a consequence, the increase of dimer separation with increasing temperature can be understood as a result of changing the number of connecting DNA.
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