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Photo-printing of faceted DNA patchy particles.

ABSTRACT: Patchy particles with shape complementarity can serve as building blocks for assembling colloidal superstructures. Alternatively, encoding information on patches using DNA can direct assembly into a variety of crystalline or other preprogrammed structures. Here, we present a tool where DNA is used both to engineer shape and to encode information on colloidal particles. Two reactive oil emulsions with different but complementary DNA (cDNA) brushes are assembled into CsCl-like crystalline lattices. The DNA brushes are recruited to and ultimately localized at the junctions between neighboring droplets, which gives rise to DNA-encoded faceted patches. The emulsions are then solidified by ultraviolet (UV) polymerization, producing faceted patchy particles. The facet size and DNA distribution are determined by the balance between the DNA binding energy and the elastic deformation energy of droplets. This method leads to a variety of new patchy particles with directional interactions in scalable quantities.

SUBMITTER: Diaz A JA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7245101 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Photo-printing of faceted DNA patchy particles.

Diaz A Jairo A JA Oh Joon Suk JS Yi Gi-Ra GR Pine David J DJ

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200508 20

Patchy particles with shape complementarity can serve as building blocks for assembling colloidal superstructures. Alternatively, encoding information on patches using DNA can direct assembly into a variety of crystalline or other preprogrammed structures. Here, we present a tool where DNA is used both to engineer shape and to encode information on colloidal particles. Two reactive oil emulsions with different but complementary DNA (cDNA) brushes are assembled into CsCl-like crystalline lattices ...[more]

PMID: 32385150

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