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ArticleNature communications2021

Self assembling cluster crystals from DNA based dendritic nanostructures.

Emmanuel Stiakakis, Niklas Jung, Nataša Adžić, Taras Balandin, Emmanuel Kentzinger, Ulrich Rücker, Ralf Biehl, Jan K G Dhont, Ulrich Jonas, Christos N Likos

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Emmanuel StiakakisBiomacromolecular Systems and Processes, Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany. e.stiakakis@fz-juelich.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3845-3684
Niklas JungMacromolecular Chemistry, Department of Chemistry-Biology, University of Siegen, D-57076, Siegen, Germany.
Nataša AdžićFaculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4189-4410
Taras BalandinStructural Biochemistry, Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8471-8041
Emmanuel KentzingerJülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS and Peter Grünberg Institut PGI, JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-7591
Ulrich RückerJülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS and Peter Grünberg Institut PGI, JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0200-6989
Ralf BiehlNeutron Scattering and Biological Matter(JCNS-1/IBI-8), Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1999-547X
Jan K G DhontBiomacromolecular Systems and Processes, Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany.
Ulrich JonasMacromolecular Chemistry, Department of Chemistry-Biology, University of Siegen, D-57076, Siegen, Germany.
Christos N LikosFaculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090, Vienna, Austria. christos.likos@univie.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-4834

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cluster crystals are periodic structures with lattice sites occupied by several, overlapping building blocks, featuring fluctuating site occupancy, whose expectation value depends on thermodynamic conditions. Their assembly from atomic or mesoscopic units is long-sought-after, but its experimental realization still remains elusive. Here, we show the existence of well-controlled soft matter cluster crystals. We fabricate dendritic-linear-dendritic triblock composed of a thermosensitive water-soluble polymer and nanometer-scale all-DNA dendrons of the first and second generation. Conclusive small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) evidence reveals that solutions of these triblock at sufficiently high concentrations undergo a reversible phase transition from a cluster fluid to a body-centered cubic (BCC) cluster crystal with density-independent lattice spacing, through alteration of temperature. Moreover, a rich concentration-temperature phase diagram demonstrates the emergence of various ordered nanostructures, including BCC cluster crystals, birefringent cluster crystals, as well as hexagonal phases and cluster glass-like kinetically arrested states at high densities.

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DendritesMolecular StructureNanostructuresPhase TransitionScattering, Small AngleTemperature

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PMCPMC8660878

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