Programmed

Self-Assembly

Hierarchical
assembly-
molecules to
mammals

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 Routes to Nanoassembly

Sean A. Davis, Michael Breulmann, Katja H. Rhodes, Baojian Zhang, and Stephen Mann
Template-Directed Assembly Using Nanoparticle Building Blocks: A Nanotectonic Approach
to Organized Materials Chem. Mater., 13 (10), 3218 -3226, 2001. 2
 Matrix Confinement

Diatoms natural matrix confinement

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 Status Report on Hierarchical,
Programmed Assembly

Murali Sastry, Mala Rao, and Krishna N. Ganesh Electrostatic Assembly of Nanoparticles
and Biomacromolecules Acc. Chem. Res., 35 (10), 847 -855, 2002.
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 Programmed Assembly

Chad A. Mirkin Programming the Assembly of Two- and Three-Dimensional Architectures

with DNA and Nanoscale Inorganic Building Blocks Inorg. Chem., 39 (11), 2258 -2272, 2000.
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 Programmed Assembly

Chad A. Mirkin Programming the Assembly of Two- and Three-Dimensional Architectures

with DNA and Nanoscale Inorganic Building Blocks Inorg. Chem., 39 (11), 2258 -2272, 2000.
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 Programmed Assembly

Alexander Kulak, Sean A. Davis, Erik Dujardin, and Stephen Mann Controlled Assembly of
Nanoparticle-Containing Gold and Silica Microspheres and Silica/Gold Nanocomposite
Spheroids with Complex Form Chem. Mater., 15 (2), 528 -535, 2003. 7
 Programmed Assembly

Alexander Kulak, Sean A. Davis, Erik Dujardin, and Stephen Mann Controlled Assembly of
Nanoparticle-Containing Gold and Silica Microspheres and Silica/Gold Nanocomposite
Spheroids with Complex Form Chem. Mater., 15 (2), 528 -535, 2003. 8
Programmed Assembly

Alexander Kulak, Sean A. Davis, Erik Dujardin, and

Stephen Mann Controlled Assembly of Nanoparticle-
Containing Gold and Silica Microspheres and Silica/Gold
Nanocomposite Spheroids with Complex Form Chem.
Mater., 15 (2), 528 -535, 2003. 9
 Programmed Assembly

Kensuke Naka, Hideaki Itoh, and Yoshiki Chujo Temperature-Dependent Reversible Self-
Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles into Spherical Aggregates by Molecular Recognition between
Pyrenyl and Dinitrophenyl Units Langmuir, 19 (13), 5496 -5501, 2003. 10
 Programmed Assembly

Hannes Spillmann, Alexandre Dmitriev, Nian Lin, Paolo Messina, Johannes V. Barth, and
Klaus Kern Hierarchical Assembly of Two-Dimensional Homochiral Nanocavity Arrays J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 125 (35), 10725 -10728, 2003. 11
 Programmed Assembly

Stephen Fullam, S. Nagaraja Rao, and Donald Fitzmaurice Noncovalent Self-Assembly of

Silver Nanocrystal Aggregates in Solution J.Phys. Chem. B, 104 (26), 6164 -6173, 2000.
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Programmed Assembly

Stephen Fullam, Hakan Rensmo, S. Nagaraja Rao, and

Donald Fitzmaurice Noncovalent Self-Assembly of Silver
and Gold Nanocrystal Aggregates in Solution Chem.
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Mater., 14 (9), 3643 -3650, 2002.
Programmed
Self-Assembly

How do we get
to these levels
of complexity?

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