Gold nanoparticle decoration of DNA on silicon.

@article{Reich2005, abstract = {Electrostatic assembly of cationic nanoparticles onto the negatively charged backbone of double-stranded DNA has been shown to produce one-dimensional chains with potential use as nanoelectronic components. In this paper, micron long DNA templates stretched on aminosilane- and hexamethyldisilazane-modified silicon surfaces are used to assemble 3.5 nm gold nanoparticles passivated with cationic thiocholine. Atomic force microscopy is used to analyze the density and defects along the approximately 5 nm high structures, with comparison between positively charged and neutral surfaces. Low background adsorption of nanoparticles is facilitated by both these surface chemistries, while the neutral surface yields a more densely packed assembly.}, address = {Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106-9510, USA.}, author = {Braun, G. and Inagaki, K. and Estabrook, R. A. and Wood, D. K. and Levy, E. and Cleland, A. N. and Strouse, G. F. and Reich, N. O. }, citeulike-article-id = {2746151}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la0515367}, issn = {0743-7463}, journal = {Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids}, keywords = {addons, addons-metal, afm, metallization, metallization-au, mica-dna-afm, origami}, month = {November}, number = {23}, pages = {10699--10701}, posted-at = {2008-05-02 16:50:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Gold nanoparticle decoration of DNA on silicon.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la0515367}, volume = {21}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - Reich2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2746151 TI - Gold nanoparticle decoration of DNA on silicon. JF - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids VL - 21 IS - 23 SP - 10699 EP - 10701 AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106-9510, USA. SN - 0743-7463 N2 - Electrostatic assembly of cationic nanoparticles onto the negatively charged backbone of double-stranded DNA has been shown to produce one-dimensional chains with potential use as nanoelectronic components. In this paper, micron long DNA templates stretched on aminosilane- and hexamethyldisilazane-modified silicon surfaces are used to assemble 3.5 nm gold nanoparticles passivated with cationic thiocholine. Atomic force microscopy is used to analyze the density and defects along the approximately 5 nm high structures, with comparison between positively charged and neutral surfaces. Low background adsorption of nanoparticles is facilitated by both these surface chemistries, while the neutral surface yields a more densely packed assembly. KW - addons KW - addons-metal KW - afm KW - metallization KW - metallization-au KW - mica-dna-afm KW - origami AU - Braun, G AU - Inagaki, K AU - Estabrook, RA AU - Wood, DK AU - Levy, E AU - Cleland, AN AU - Strouse, GF AU - Reich, NO PY - 2005/11/08/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la0515367 ER -