Issue 35, 2017

Solid surface vs. liquid surface: nanoarchitectonics, molecular machines, and DNA origami

Abstract

The investigation of molecules and materials at interfaces is critical for the accumulation of new scientific insights and technological advances in the chemical and physical sciences. Immobilization on solid surfaces permits the investigation of different properties of functional molecules or materials with high sensitivity and high spatial resolution. Liquid surfaces also present important media for physicochemical innovation and insight based on their great flexibility and dynamicity, rapid diffusion of molecular components for mixing and rearrangements, as well as drastic spatial variation in the prevailing dielectric environment. Therefore, a comparative discussion of the relative merits of the properties of materials when positioned at solid or liquid surfaces would be informative regarding present-to-future developments of surface-based technologies. In this perspective article, recent research examples of nanoarchitectonics, molecular machines, DNA nanotechnology, and DNA origami are compared with respect to the type of surface used, i.e. solid surfaces vs. liquid surfaces, for future perspectives of interfacial physics and chemistry.

Graphical abstract: Solid surface vs. liquid surface: nanoarchitectonics, molecular machines, and DNA origami

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
09 Apr. 2017
Accepted
20 Jūn. 2017
First published
20 Jūn. 2017

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 23658-23676

Solid surface vs. liquid surface: nanoarchitectonics, molecular machines, and DNA origami

K. Ariga, T. Mori, W. Nakanishi and J. P. Hill, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 23658 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP02280H

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