Preparation of silica stabilized Tobacco mosaic virus templates for the production of metal and layered nanoparticles

Mechanistic study of the hydrothermal reduction of palladium on the Tobacco mosaic virus

“…Materials created from TMV virions have been applied to electroless deposition 60 , battery electrodes 60 , memory devices 70 , chemical sensing 29 71 , catalysis 72 , solgel chemistry 46 .…”

Surface functionalized silica as a toolkit for studying aqueous phase palladium adsorption and mineralization on thiol moiety in the absence of external reducing agents

“…Exploiting advantages of wet chemistry, mineralization of inorganic precursor ions on the various biomolecular templates such as viruses has been studied to develop complex structured materials [1][2][3]. Metal or semiconductor nanoclusters are deposited on bio-templates to prepare nanoparticle decorated wires at room temperature [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. The patterning of metal/semiconductor coated bio-templates is also investigated for potential applications in nano electric devices [10,15,16].…”

Metallization of biologically inspired silica nanotubes

“…Specifically, the ease of which one can functionalize silicon's surface makes it a very promising and useful scaffold for metallization with control over morphology and composition using metal nanoparticles or metal oxides [4,5]. Metallic nanoparticles possess unique optical and electrical properties making them extremely useful in broad range of fields.…”