Encoding Morphogenesis of Quasi-Triangular Gold Nanoprisms with DNA

Weina Fang; Jiangming Wang; Shuang Lu; Qingyi Gu; Xiao He; Fei Wang; Lihua Wang; Yang Tian; Huajie Liu; Chunhai Fan

doi:10.1002/anie.202208688

Encoding Morphogenesis of Quasi-Triangular Gold Nanoprisms with DNA

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2022 Sep 26;61(39):e202208688. doi: 10.1002/anie.202208688. Epub 2022 Aug 18.

Authors

Weina Fang^{1

2}, Jiangming Wang¹, Shuang Lu³, Qingyi Gu⁴, Xiao He⁴, Fei Wang⁵, Lihua Wang^{2

6}, Yang Tian², Huajie Liu¹, Chunhai Fan⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
² Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China.
⁴ Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China.
⁵ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and National Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
⁶ Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Zhangjiang Laboratory, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201204, China.

PMID: 35900362
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202208688

Abstract

Properties of gold nanoparticles vary with their morphologies. Typically, the research on the properties and applications of the nonequilibrium intermediates generated by the morphological evolution of triangular gold nanoprisms is still incomplete. Herein, we employ thiol-DNA (HS-DNA) to protect the low-stability quasi-nanoprisms with different truncation degrees (R values). The presence of HS-DNA not only increases the stability of the quasi-nanoprisms in different microenvironments, but also facilitates us to investigate their intrinsic plasmonic properties related to morphology. Additionally, we serve quasi-nanoprisms loaded with HS-DNA as assembly modules and nanoplatforms for programmable self-assembly higher-order hybrid structures, as well as carriers for encoding and decoding of orthogonal barcode-like information, which opens new opportunities for developing novel building blocks for light manipulation at nanoscale.

Keywords: HS-DNA; Information Encoding; Morphological Evolution; Plasmonic Properties; Quasi-Nanoprism.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

DNA
Gold* / chemistry
Metal Nanoparticles* / chemistry
Morphogenesis
Sulfhydryl Compounds

Substances

Sulfhydryl Compounds
Gold
DNA