Entropy Stabilizes Floppy Crystals of Mobile DNA-Coated Colloids

• Main Authors: Hu, Hao, Ruiz, Pablo Sampedro, Ni, Ran
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Colloidal Crystal; Self-assembly
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88306; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44590
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Grafting linkers with open ends of complementary single-stranded DNA makes a flexible tool to tune interactions between colloids, which facilitates the design of complex self-assembly structures. Recently, it has been proposed to coat colloids with mobile DNA linkers, which alleviates kinetic barrie...