Symmetry-guided inverse design of self-assembling multiscale DNA origami tilings

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Main Authors: Hayakawa, Daichi, Videbæk, Thomas E., Grason, Gregory M., Rogers, W. Benjamin
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Published: 2024
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author Hayakawa, Daichi
Videbæk, Thomas E.
Grason, Gregory M.
Rogers, W. Benjamin
author_facet Hayakawa, Daichi
Videbæk, Thomas E.
Grason, Gregory M.
Rogers, W. Benjamin
contents Recent advances enable the creation of nanoscale building blocks with complex geometries and interaction specificities for self-assembly. This nearly boundless design space necessitates design principles for defining the mutual interactions between multiple particle species to target a user-specified complex structure or pattern. In this article, we develop a symmetry-based method to generate the interaction matrices that specify the assembly of two-dimensional tilings which we illustrate using equilateral triangles. By exploiting the allowed 2D symmetries, we develop an algorithmic approach by which any periodic 2D tiling can be generated from an arbitrarily large number of subunit species, notably addressing an unmet challenge of engineering 2D crystals with periodicities that can be arbitrarily larger than subunit size. To demonstrate the utility of our design approach, we encode specific interactions between triangular subunits synthesized by DNA origami and show that we can guide their self-assembly into tilings with a wide variety of symmetries, using up to 12 unique species of triangles. By conjugating specific triangles with gold nanoparticles, we fabricate gold-nanoparticle supercrystals whose lattice parameter spans up to 300 nm. Finally, to generate economical design rules, we compare the design economy of various tilings. In particular, we show that (1) higher symmetries allow assembly of larger unit cells with fewer subunits and (2) linear supercrystals can be designed more economically using linear primitive unit cells. This work provides a simple algorithmic approach to designing periodic assemblies, which may open new doors to the multiscale assembly of superlattices of nanostructured "metatoms" with engineered plasmonic functions.
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spellingShingle Symmetry-guided inverse design of self-assembling multiscale DNA origami tilings
Hayakawa, Daichi
Videbæk, Thomas E.
Grason, Gregory M.
Rogers, W. Benjamin
Soft Condensed Matter
Recent advances enable the creation of nanoscale building blocks with complex geometries and interaction specificities for self-assembly. This nearly boundless design space necessitates design principles for defining the mutual interactions between multiple particle species to target a user-specified complex structure or pattern. In this article, we develop a symmetry-based method to generate the interaction matrices that specify the assembly of two-dimensional tilings which we illustrate using equilateral triangles. By exploiting the allowed 2D symmetries, we develop an algorithmic approach by which any periodic 2D tiling can be generated from an arbitrarily large number of subunit species, notably addressing an unmet challenge of engineering 2D crystals with periodicities that can be arbitrarily larger than subunit size. To demonstrate the utility of our design approach, we encode specific interactions between triangular subunits synthesized by DNA origami and show that we can guide their self-assembly into tilings with a wide variety of symmetries, using up to 12 unique species of triangles. By conjugating specific triangles with gold nanoparticles, we fabricate gold-nanoparticle supercrystals whose lattice parameter spans up to 300 nm. Finally, to generate economical design rules, we compare the design economy of various tilings. In particular, we show that (1) higher symmetries allow assembly of larger unit cells with fewer subunits and (2) linear supercrystals can be designed more economically using linear primitive unit cells. This work provides a simple algorithmic approach to designing periodic assemblies, which may open new doors to the multiscale assembly of superlattices of nanostructured "metatoms" with engineered plasmonic functions.
title Symmetry-guided inverse design of self-assembling multiscale DNA origami tilings
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19518