Using silver nanowire antennas to enhance the conversion efficiency of photoresponsive DNA nanomotors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9331-9336

  Yuan, Quan ^a   Zhang, Yunfei ^a   Chen, Yan ^a,b   Wang, Ruowen ^a   Du, Chaoling ^c   Yasun, Emir ^a   Tan, Weihong ^a,b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; Localized surface plasmon; Photo driven nanomotor

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; PHOSPHORAMIDOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; SILVER; SILVER NANOWIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DNA NANOMOTOR; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY CONVERSION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOMOTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY;

AZO COMPOUNDS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79959346885     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018358108     Document Type: Article

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