A rotary plasmonic nanoclock

Ling Xin; Chao Zhou; Xiaoyang Duan; Na Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13444-3

A rotary plasmonic nanoclock

Ling Xin
, Chao Zhou
, Xiaoyang Duan
, Na Liu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Heidelberg University

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Abstract

One of the fundamental challenges in nanophotonics is to gain full control over nanoscale optical elements. The precise spatiotemporal arrangement determines their interactions and collective behavior. To this end, DNA nanotechnology is employed as an unprecedented tool to create nanophotonic devices with excellent spatial addressability and temporal programmability. However, most of the current DNA-assembled nanophotonic devices can only reconfigure among random or very few defined states. Here, we demonstrate a DNA-assembled rotary plasmonic nanoclock. In this system, a rotor gold nanorod can carry out directional and reversible 360° rotation with respect to a stator gold nanorod, transitioning among 16 well-defined configurations powered by DNA fuels. The full-turn rotation process is monitored by optical spectroscopy in real time. We further demonstrate autonomous rotation of the plasmonic nanoclock powered by DNAzyme-RNA interactions. Such assembly approaches pave a viable route towards advanced nanophotonic systems entirely from the bottom-up.

Original language	English
Article number	5394
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13444-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

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