A prerequisite to build advanced plasmonic architectures is the ability to precisely control the organization of metal nanoparticles in space. To this end, DNA origami represents an ideal construction platform owing to its unique sequence specificity and structural versatility. I will present sequentially a diverse set of DNA-assembled plasmonic nanostructures according to their characteristic optical properties. I will also discuss about the inevitable evolution from static to dynamic plasmonic systems along with the fast development of this inter-disciplinary field. Finally, possible future directions and perspectives on the challenges will be elucidated.

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Bio

Laura Na Liu is Professor at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics at University of Heidelberg, Germany. She received her Ph. D in Physics at University of Stuttgart in 2009, working on 3D complex plasmonics at optical frequencies. In 2010, she worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011, she joined Rice University as Texas Instruments visiting professor. At the end of 2012, she obtained a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and became an independent group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She joined University of Heidelberg in 2015. Her research interest is multi-disciplinary. She works at the interface between nanoplasmonics, biology, and chemistry. Her group focuses on developing sophisticated and smart plasmonic nanosystems for answering structural biology questions as well as catalytic chemistry questions in local environments.

Laura Na Liu is an associate editor of Science Advances. She obtained several prestigious awards, including Hertha-Sponer Prize of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) (2010), Nanowissenschaftspreis AGENT-D (2011), Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2012), Elisabeth Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society Fellowship (2013), Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft Gesellschaft (DFG) (2014), European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2014), Light2015 Young Woman in Photonics Award of the European Optical Society (EOS) (2015), and IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics from the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (2016).