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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015)

Controlling DNA Bundle Size and Spatial Arrangement in Self-assembled Arrays on Superhydrophobic Surface

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-014-0027-z
Gabriele Ciasca
Istituto di Fisica, Universita´ Cattolica SC, L.go Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Massimiliano Papi
Istituto di Fisica, Universita´ Cattolica SC, L.go Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Valentina Palmieri
Istituto di Fisica, Universita´ Cattolica SC, L.go Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Michela Chiarpotto
Istituto di Fisica, Universita´ Cattolica SC, L.go Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Simone Di Claudio
Istituto di Fisica, Universita´ Cattolica SC, L.go Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Adele De Ninno
Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-CNR, Via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy
Ennio Giovine
Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-CNR, Via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy
Gaetano Campi
Institute of Crystallography-CNR, Via Salaria Km 29, 0016 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
Annamaria Gerardino
Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-CNR, Via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy
Luca Businaro
Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-CNR, Via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy
Marco De Spirito
Istituto di Fisica, Universita´ Cattolica SC, L.go Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy

Corresponding Author: Massimiliano Papi

m.papi@rm.unicatt.it

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015), Article Number: 146-151

Abstract

The use of superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) is now emerging as an attractive platform for the realization of one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures with potential applications in many nanotechnological and biotechnological fields. To this purpose, a strict control of the nanostructures size and their spatial arrangement is highly required. However, these parameters may be strongly dependent on the complex evaporation dynamics of the sessile droplet on the SHS. In this work, we investigated the effect of the evaporation dynamics on the size and the spatial arrangement of self-assembled 1D DNA bundles. Our results reveal that different arrangements and bundle size distributions may occur depending on droplet evaporation stage. These results contribute to elucidate the formation mechanism of 1D nanostructures on SHSs.

Keywords

Superhydrophobicity DNA array Cassie state Wenzel state 1D nanostructures Self-assembly
Ciasca, Gabriele, Massimiliano Papi, Valentina Palmieri, Michela Chiarpotto, Simone Di Claudio, Adele De Ninno, Ennio Giovine, Gaetano Campi, Annamaria Gerardino, Luca Businaro, and Marco De Spirito. 2014. “Controlling DNA Bundle Size and Spatial Arrangement in Self-Assembled Arrays on Superhydrophobic Surface”. Nano-Micro Letters 7 (2):146-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-014-0027-z.
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