Abstract
The methods are presented for fabrication of new nanoscale-organized planar inorganic nanostructures, ultrathin polymeric and nanocomposite films on solid substrates with incorporated nanosized functional and structural building blocks. The methods are based on interfacial synthesis and self-assembly, DNA templating and scaffolding. Ultimately thin monomolecular and multilayer ordered stable polymeric and nanocomposite films containing incorporated ligand-stabilized gold nanoclusters, interfacially in-film grown metallic ( Au , Pd ) nanoparticles and organized low-dimensional nanostructures were formed. N-alkylated derivatives of poly(4-vinilpyridine) were synthesized and used as water-insoluble amphiphilic polycations to form organized polymeric Langmuir monolayers and novel planar DNA/amphiphilic polycation complexes at the air–aqueous DNA solution interface. The extended net-like and quasi-circular toroidal condensed conformations of deposited planar DNA/amphiphilic polycation complexes were obtained in dependence on the amphiphilic polycation monolayer state during the DNA binding. Planar DNA/amphiphilic polycation complexes were used as nanotemplates for fabrication of organized planar bio-organic–inorganic hybrid nanostructures with ordered nanophase inorganic components (quasi-one-dimensional arrays of semiconductor (CdS) and iron oxide nanoparticles and nanorods) organized in planar matrix of deposited DNA/amphiphilic polycation complex film. The formed nanostructures were characterized by atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy techniques.
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