This technology is a platform to organize nanoscale objects into a 3D array using DNA programmable interactions, that can be used to generate 3D hierarchically ordered materials for optical and energy applications.
Advancements in lithographic and additive manufacture methods have supported tremendous progress in the field of small-scale manufacturing over the past few decades. However, current methods to generate specifically designed 3D nanomaterials on demand, with prescribed diverse structures and composition, are limited by a reliance on the composition and interaction of particles within these architectures and with the underlying organization.
This technology describes a technique for organizing nanoscale objects into a 3D array using repeating mesoscale motifs and their elemental blocks—nanoscale voxels (defined units of 3D space that can be empty or occupied) with DNA-encoded directional bonds that can carry encoded nano-cargo, to target specific molecules to use during self-assembly. The technology permits the production of complex, hierarchical, and diverse 3D architectures while reducing the amount of information required to encode such complex structures. This technology provides a bottom-up method for fabricating 3D architectures from a variety of nanocomponents by design, for use in a variety of nanomaterial applications. This technology has been validated with x-ray scattering and electron microscopy approaches.
Patent Pending
IR CU22393
Licensing Contact: Greg Maskel
