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Background signals from in situ-formed amorphous carbon, despite not being fully understood, are known to be a common issue in few-molecule surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Here, discrete gold and silver nanoparticle aggregates assembled by DNA origami were used to study the conditions for the formation of amorphous carbon during SERS measurements. Gold and silver dimers were exposed to laser light of varied power densities and wavelengths. Amorphous carbon prevalently formed on silver aggregates and at high power densities. Time-resolved measurements enabled us to follow the formation of amorphous carbon. Silver nanolenses consisting of three differently-sized silver nanoparticles were used to follow the generation of amorphous carbon at the single-nanostructure level. This allowed observation of the many sharp peaks that constitute the broad amorphous carbon signal found in ensemble measurements. In conclusion, we highlight strategies to prevent amorphous carbon formation, especially for DNA-assembled SERS substrates.
DNA is effectively damaged by radiation, which can on the one hand lead to cancer and is on the other hand directly exploited in the treatment of tumor tissue. DNA strand breaks are already induced by photons having an energy below the ionization energy of DNA. At high photon energies, most of the DNA strand breaks are induced by low-energy secondary electrons. In the present study we quantified photon and electron induced DNA strand breaks in four different 12mer oligonucleotides. They are irradiated directly with 8.44 eV vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photons and 8.8 eV low energy electrons (LEE). By using Si instead of VUV transparent CaF2 as a substrate the VUV exposure leads to an additional release of LEEs, which have a maximum energy of 3.6 eV and can significantly enhance strand break cross sections. Atomic force microscopy is used to visualize strand breaks on DNA origami platforms and to determine absolute values for the strand break cross sections. Upon irradiation with 8.44 eV photons all the investigated sequences show very similar strand break cross sections in the range of 1.7 - 2.3 x 10-16 cm2. The strand break cross sections for LEE irradiation at 8.8 eV are one to two orders of magnitude larger than the ones for VUV photons, and a slight sequence dependence is observed. The sequence dependence is even more pronounced for LEEs with energies < 3.6 eV. The present results help to assess DNA damage by photons and electrons close to the ionization threshold.
Diese Studie demonstriert die Bottom-up-Synthese
von Silbernanolinsen. Ein robustes Beschichtungsprotokoll
ermçglichte die Funktionalisierung unterschiedlich großer
Silbernanopartikel mit einzelstr-ngiger DNAunterschiedlicher
Sequenz. Derartig beschichtete Partikel mit Durchmessern von
10 nm, 20 nm und 60 nm wurden mithilfe von DNA-Origami-
Gergsten zu Silbernanolinsen angeordnet. Ein einzelnes Mo-
lekgldes Proteins Streptavidin ist in demjenigen Spalt zwi-
schenden Partikeln immobilisiert worden, der die hçchste
Feldverst-rkung zur Verfggung stellt. Streptavidin war dabei
mit Alkin-Gruppen modifiziert und fungierte als Modellanalyt
in Experimenten zur oberfl-chenverst-rkten Raman-Streuung
(SERS). Korrelierte Raman- und Rasterkraftmikroskopie-
Messungen ermçglichten die Aufnahme von SERS-Signalen
der Alkingruppen eines einzelnen Streptavidins,von einer
einzelnen Silbernanolinse.Diese diskreten, selbst-hnlichen
Silbernanopartikelaggregate versprechen vielf-ltige Anwen-
dungen im Feld der Plasmonik
This study demonstrates the bottom-up synthesis of
silver nanolenses.Arobust coating protocol enabled the
functionalization of differently sized silver nanoparticles with
DNAsingle strands of orthogonal sequence.Coated particles
10 nm, 20 nm, and 60 nm in diameter were self-assembled by
DNAorigami scaffolds to form silver nanolenses.Single
molecules of the protein streptavidin were selectively placed in
the gap of highest electric field enhancement. Streptavidin
labelled with alkyne groups served as model analyte in surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) experiments.Bycorre-
lated Raman mapping and atomic force microscopy, SERS
signals of the alkyne labels of asingle streptavidin molecule,
from asingle silver nanolens,were detected. The discrete,self-
similar aggregates of solid silver nanoparticles are promising
for plasmonic applications.