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Interfacial crystallization under DNA control

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Programmable DNA hybridization is used to mediate the self-assembly of substrate-bound DNA-grafted gold nanoparticles into single-crystalline Winterbottom and non-Winterbottom constructions with particular size, shape and orientation.

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Fig. 1: Single-crystalline supracrystal shapes of DNA-grafted gold nanoparticles on a solid substrate.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

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  2. Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Qian Chen

  3. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Qian Chen

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Qian Chen

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