Linking and Manipulation of Gold Multinanoparticle Structures Using Dithiols and Scanning Force Microscopy

Roland Resch,*,†,‡ Christof Baur,†,‡ Alejandro Bugacov,†,| Bruce E. Koel,†,‡ Pierre M. Echternach,⊥ Anupam Madhukar,†,§ Nicolas Montoya,† Aristides A. G. Requicha,†,| and Peter Will†,| Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, UniVersity of Southern California, 947 West 37th Place, Los Angeles, California 90089-0781, Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Computer Science, UniVersity of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak GroVe DriVe, Pasadena, California 91109