Vitali Stsiapura et al 2006 Nanotechnology 17 581 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/17/2/040
Vitali Stsiapura1,2, Alyona Sukhanova1, Alexander Baranov3, Mikhail Artemyev4, Olga Kulakovich2, Vladimir Oleinikov5, Michel Pluot1, Jacques H M Cohen1 and Igor Nabiev1,6
Show affiliationsHighly ordered quasi-nanowires from fluorescent semiconductor CdSe/ZnS spherical (quantum dots) or rod-like (quantum rods) nanoparticles were produced using DNA as a template. Positively charged nanoparticles were fixed along the negatively charged DNA backbone by electrostatic interaction. After incubation of the solution of DNA and nanoparticles at different stoichiometric ratios the complexes were applied to the hydrophobic surface and stretched using the molecular combing technique. Here, we demonstrate that fluorescent patterns with desirable morphology and properties can be formed by varying the nanoparticle charge and shape and their stoichiometry in the complex with DNA.
87.85.Qr Nanotechnologies-design
68.65.Hb Quantum dots (patterned in quantum wells)
78.67.-n Optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials and structures
Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical
Issue 2 (28 January 2006)
Received 5 September 2005, in final form 28 October 2005
Published 3 January 2006
Vitali Stsiapura et al 2006 Nanotechnology 17 581
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