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SUBMITTER: Sendroiu IE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2756695 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sendroiu Iuliana E IE Warner Megan E ME Corn Robert M RM
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20091001 19
A novel method for preparing gold nanorods that are first coated with a thin silica film and then functionalized with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is presented. Coating the nanorods with 3-5 nm of silica improves their solubility and stability. Amine-modified ssDNA is attached to the silica-coated gold nanorods via a reductive amination reaction with an aldehyde trimethoxysilane monolayer. The nanorods exhibit an intense absorption band at 780 nm, and are used to enhance the sensitivity of surfac ...[more]