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Sculpting light by arranging optical components with DNA nanostructures

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DNA nanotechnology has developed into a state where the design and assembly of complex nanoscale structures is fast, reliable, cost effective, and accessible to nonexperts. Nanometer-precise positioning of organic (e.g., dyes and biomolecules) and inorganic (e.g., metal nanoparticles and colloidal quantum dots) components on DNA nanostructures is straightforward and modular. In this article, we identify the opportunities and challenges that DNA-assembled devices and materials face for optical antennas, metamaterials, and sensing applications. With the ability to arrange hybrid components in defined geometries, plasmonic effects will, for example, amplify molecular recognition transduction such that single-molecule events will be measureable with simple devices. On a larger scale, DNA nanotechnology has the potential to break the symmetry of common self-assembled functional materials, creating predefined optical properties such as refractive-index tuning and topological insulation.

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This work was funded by European Research Council (ERC) through the ERC starting Grant No. 336440 for Optical Responses Controlled by DNA Assembly (ORCA), the BMBF (Point-of-Care-Diagnostik mit Einzelmolekül-Nachweis POCEMON, 13N14336), the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (AC 279/2–1 and TI 329/9–1), and the Excellence Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM). We acknowledge support by the state ministry for research of Lower Saxony in the frame of the “Quantum- and Nanometrology” (QUANOMET) strategic research area. QUANOMET is part of the LUHTUBS research alliance.

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    Mauricio Pilo-Pais, Philip Tinnefeld & Tim Liedl

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Pilo-Pais, M., Acuna, G.P., Tinnefeld, P. et al. Sculpting light by arranging optical components with DNA nanostructures. MRS Bulletin 42, 936–942 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2017.278

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