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Spectroscopic studies of nucleic acid additions during seed-mediated growth of gold nanoparticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2015

Maeling J.N. Tapp ,
Richard S. Sullivan ,
Patrick Dennis ,
Rajesh R. Naik  and
Valeria T. Milam
Maeling J.N. Tapp
Affiliation:
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, USA
Richard S. Sullivan
Affiliation:
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, USA
Patrick Dennis
Affiliation:
Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Soft Matter Materials Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433, USA
Rajesh R. Naik
Affiliation:
Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Soft Matter Materials Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433, USA
Valeria T. Milam*
Affiliation:
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, USA; Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, USA; and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, USA
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The effect of adding nucleic acids to gold seeds during the growth stage of either nanospheres or nanorods was investigated using UV–Vis spectroscopy to reveal any oligonucleotide base or structure-specific effects on nanoparticle growth kinetics or plasmonic signatures. Spectral data indicate that the presence of DNA duplexes during seed aging drastically accelerated nanosphere growth while the addition of single-stranded polyadenine at any point during seed aging induces nanosphere aggregation. For seeds added to a gold nanorod growth solution, single-stranded polythymine induces a modest blue shift in the longitudinal peak wave length. Moreover, a particular sequence comprised of 50% thymine bases was found to induce a faster, more dramatic blue shift in the longitudinal peak wave length compared to any of the homopolymer incubation cases. Monomeric forms of the nucleic acids, however, do not yield discernable spectral differences in any of the gold suspensions studied.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 30 , Issue 5 , 14 March 2015 , pp. 666 - 676
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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