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SOFT MATTER
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 664-669出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b917846e
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- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Weten-schappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
DNA plays a special role in polymer science not just because of the highly selective recognition of complementary single DNA strands but also because natural DNA chains can be made very long, yet perfectly monodisperse. Solutions of such long DNA chains are widely used as model systems in polymer science. Here, we report the unusual self-assembly that takes place in systems of colloids coated with very long double-stranded DNA. We find that colloids coated with such long DNA can assemble into unique floating crystalline monolayers that are suspended at a distance of several colloidal diameters above a weakly adsorbing substrate. The formation of these monolayers does not depend on DNA hybridization. Floating colloidal structures have potentially interesting applications as such ordered structures can be assembled in one location and then deposited somewhere else. This would open the way to the assembly of multi-component, layered colloidal crystals.
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