Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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180869 | Electrochemistry Communications | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Ag nanowires and nanoparticles have been formed on hybrid λ-DNA/conducting polymer templates. The strong, but non-covalent, interaction of the conducting polymer with the double helix allowed us to incorporate chemical functionalities (alkynyl) into the DNA/conducting polymer strands by synthesis of functional monomers. Oxidative polymerisation of alkynyl-thienylpyrrole in the presence of λ-DNA produced conductive nanowires bearing alkyne groups; we show, using a combination of AFM, cAFM and EFM phase measurements that the alkyne functionality strong influences the subsequent templating reaction of Tollens’ reagent to produce uniform conductive nanowires comprised of many connected Ag clusters.
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Authors
Said A. Farha Al-Said, Reda Hassanien, Jennifer Hannant, Miguel A. Galindo, Stela Pruneanu, Andrew R. Pike, Andrew Houlton, Benjamin R. Horrocks,