TY - JOUR
T1 - Viruses as vehicles for growth, organization and assembly of materials
AU - Flynn, Christine E.
AU - Lee, Seung Wuk
AU - Peelle, Beau R.
AU - Belcher, Angela M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the ground breaking work by Stephen Mann, Trevor Douglas, Stanley Brown, Onsager, Marvin and Fraden, whose initial and continuing work is leading toward the use of viruses as fundamental building blocks for materials. Additionally, the authors specifically thank those contributors who supplied images for publication as well as NSF-NIRT and the Beckman Foundation for financial support.
PY - 2003/11/25
Y1 - 2003/11/25
N2 - Viruses have been used as scaffolds for the peptide-directed synthesis of magnetic and semiconducting materials, and have been further exploited in the formation of nanowires and liquid crystals. Reviewed in this manuscript is the work of Douglas, Mann, Fraden, Belcher, DeYoreo and others who have either exploited native viral structures to grow or assemble materials, or have genetically modified existing viral structures to specifically affect the growth and mineralization of inorganic materials. Rod-shaped viruses, including M13 bacteriophage and tobacco mosaic viruses, have been used in the synthesis of nanowires of metals, semiconductors and magnetic materials. The cowpea chlorotic mottle and the cowpea mosaic viruses have been used as nucleation cages for the mineralization of materials such as iron oxide and polyoxometalates. The exterior of such cages has been chemically modified with conjugating linkers as well as with polymeric materials and fluorophores. Further, viral-inorganic complexes have been incorporated into liquid crystal systems as well as self-supporting viral thin films and viral fibers.
AB - Viruses have been used as scaffolds for the peptide-directed synthesis of magnetic and semiconducting materials, and have been further exploited in the formation of nanowires and liquid crystals. Reviewed in this manuscript is the work of Douglas, Mann, Fraden, Belcher, DeYoreo and others who have either exploited native viral structures to grow or assemble materials, or have genetically modified existing viral structures to specifically affect the growth and mineralization of inorganic materials. Rod-shaped viruses, including M13 bacteriophage and tobacco mosaic viruses, have been used in the synthesis of nanowires of metals, semiconductors and magnetic materials. The cowpea chlorotic mottle and the cowpea mosaic viruses have been used as nucleation cages for the mineralization of materials such as iron oxide and polyoxometalates. The exterior of such cages has been chemically modified with conjugating linkers as well as with polymeric materials and fluorophores. Further, viral-inorganic complexes have been incorporated into liquid crystal systems as well as self-supporting viral thin films and viral fibers.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.actamat.2003.08.031
DO - 10.1016/j.actamat.2003.08.031
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0142029496
SN - 1359-6454
VL - 51
SP - 5867
EP - 5880
JO - Acta Materialia
JF - Acta Materialia
IS - 19
ER -