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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2026

Electronic Actuation of Surface-Immobilized, pH-Responsive DNA Nanoswitches.

Francisca D'Rozario, Callum D Silver, Katherine E Dunn, Steven D Quinn, Andy M Tyrrell, Christoph Wälti, Steven D Johnson

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Francisca D'RozarioSchool of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-7881-9468
Callum D SilverSchool of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-4490-3650
Katherine E DunnSchool of Engineering, Institute for Bioengineering, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3DW, Scotland, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-5068-4354
Steven D QuinnSchool of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-3442-4103
Andy M TyrrellSchool of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-8533-2404
Christoph WältiSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-9286-5359
Steven D JohnsonSchool of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-1786-3182

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Abstract

Dynamic DNA machines exploit the specificity of base pairing and/or sensitivity to the local environment to control the reversible switching of DNA constructs between conformational states. One such example are pH-sensitive DNA nanoswitches that can be actuated by proton-mediated Hoogsteen interactions within a DNA triplex domain. To date, studies of pH-sensitive DNA nanoswitches have largely focused on DNA machines that are freely diffusing in the solution phase. For many applications, it is advantageous to integrate these dynamic DNA machines with solid-state devices, requiring immobilization on surfaces. Here, we explore the switching of a pH-sensitive DNA triplex immobilized on a surface as a dense, 2-dimensional DNA monolayer. DNA nanoswitches were assembled onto surfaces via thiol chemistry and pH-controlled conformational switching of the constructs examined using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). These QCM-D experiments indicate that despite the high density of DNA within the monolayer (10

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DNAImmobilized Nucleic AcidsDNA NanostructuresHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationNucleic Acid ConformationQuartz Crystal Microbalance TechniquesSurface PropertiesDNAImmobilized Nucleic Acidstriplex DNADNA triplexdynamic DNA nanomachineelectronic actuationhybrid electronic-DNA technologiessurface-immobilized

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