Schematic of Assembly Using DNA (IMAGE)

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Schematic of Assembly Using DNA

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This is a schematic illustration of the experimental strategy: Double stranded DNA bundles (gray) form tetrahedral cages. Single stranded DNA strands on the edges (green) and vertices (red) match up with complementary strands on gold nanoparticles. This results in a single gold particle being trapped inside each tetrahedral cage, and the cages binding together by tethered gold nanoparticles at each vertex. The result is a crystalline nanoparticle lattice that mimics the long-range order of crystalline diamond. The images below the schematic are (left to right): a reconstructed cryo-EM density map of the tetrahedron, a caged particle shown in a negative-staining TEM image, and a diamond superlattice shown at high magnification with cryo-STEM.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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