<p>Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA), a type of soft matter, is often considered a promising building block to fabricate and investigate hybrid heterostructures with exotic functionalities. However, at this stage, investigations on DNA-enabled nanoelectronics have been largely limited to zero-dimensional (0D) and/or one-dimensional (1D) structures. Exploring their potential in higher dimensions, particularly in combination with hard matter solids such as van der Waals (vdW) two-dimensional (2D) materials, has proven challenging. Here, we show that 2D tessellations of DNA origami thin films, with a lateral size over 10 μm, can function as a sufficiently stiff substrate (Young’s modulus of &#xa0;~4 GPa). We further demonstrate a two-dimensional soft-hard interface of matter (2D-SHIM), in which vdW layers are coupled to the 2D tessellations of DNA origami. In such 2D-SHIM, the DNA film can then serve as a superlattice due to its sub-100 nm sized pitch of the self-assemblies, which modulates the electronic states of the hybrid system. Our findings open up promising possibilities for manipulating the electronic properties in hard matter using soft matter as a super-structural tuning knob, which may find applications in next generation nanoelectronics.</p>

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Soft-matter-induced orderings in a solid-state van der Waals heterostructure

  • Kai Zhao,
  • Baojuan Dong,
  • Yuang Wang,
  • Xiaoxue Fan,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Zhiren Xiong,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Jinkun He,
  • Kaining Yang,
  • Minru Qi,
  • Chengbing Qin,
  • Tongyao Zhang,
  • Maolin Chen,
  • Hanwen Wang,
  • Jianqi Huang,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Hanwei Huang,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Yaning Wang,
  • Xixiang Zhang,
  • Juehan Yang,
  • Zhenwen Huang,
  • Yongjun Li,
  • Zhongming Wei,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Shuoxing Jiang,
  • Zheng Vitto Han,
  • Funan Liu

摘要

Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA), a type of soft matter, is often considered a promising building block to fabricate and investigate hybrid heterostructures with exotic functionalities. However, at this stage, investigations on DNA-enabled nanoelectronics have been largely limited to zero-dimensional (0D) and/or one-dimensional (1D) structures. Exploring their potential in higher dimensions, particularly in combination with hard matter solids such as van der Waals (vdW) two-dimensional (2D) materials, has proven challenging. Here, we show that 2D tessellations of DNA origami thin films, with a lateral size over 10 μm, can function as a sufficiently stiff substrate (Young’s modulus of  ~4 GPa). We further demonstrate a two-dimensional soft-hard interface of matter (2D-SHIM), in which vdW layers are coupled to the 2D tessellations of DNA origami. In such 2D-SHIM, the DNA film can then serve as a superlattice due to its sub-100 nm sized pitch of the self-assemblies, which modulates the electronic states of the hybrid system. Our findings open up promising possibilities for manipulating the electronic properties in hard matter using soft matter as a super-structural tuning knob, which may find applications in next generation nanoelectronics.