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DNA origami-templated assembly of plasmonic nanostructures with enhanced Raman scattering

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DNA origami have been established as versatile templates to fabricate plasmonic nanostructures in predefined shapes and multiple dimensions. Limited to the size of DNA origami, which are approximate to 100 nm, it is hard to assemble more intricate plasmonic nanostructures in large scale. Herein, we used rectangular DNA origami as the template to anchor two 30-nm gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) which induced dimers nanostructures. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images showed the assembly of AuNPs with high yields. Using the linkers to organize the DNA origami templates into nanoribbons, chains of AuNPs were obtained, which was validated by the TEM images. Furthermore, we observed a significant Raman signal enhancement from molecules covalently attached to the AuNP-dimers and AuNP-chains. Our method opens up the prospects of high-ordered plasmonic nanostructures with tailored optical properties.

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    Meng-Zhen Zhao, Xu Wang, Yi-Kang **ng, Shao-Kang Ren, Nan Teng, Jun Wang, Jie Chao & Lian-Hui Wang

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21475064), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20151504), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. IRT_15R37), Sci-Tech Support Plan of Jiangsu Province (No. BE2014719), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (No. PAPD, YX03001), the Mega-projects of Science and Technology Research (No. AWS13C007) and NUPTSF (No. 214175).

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Zhao, MZ., Wang, X., **ng, YK. et al. DNA origami-templated assembly of plasmonic nanostructures with enhanced Raman scattering. NUCL SCI TECH 29, 6 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-017-0347-z

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