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Title: Photonics and plasmonics go viral: self-assembly of hierarchical metamaterials

Journal Article · · Rendiconti Lincei
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). Schools of Medicine and Engineering, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
  2. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Univ. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia). Jozef Stefan Inst., Dept. of Theoretical Physics, and Dept. of Physics
  3. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). Schools of Medicine and Engineering, Dept. of Physics; Univ. of Calabria, Rende (Italy). Dept. of Physics
  4. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). Schools of Medicine and Engineering, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering; Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). School of Medicine, Dept. of Radiology; Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). School of Engineering, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). School of Engineering, Dept. of Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Sizing and shaping of mesoscale architectures with nanoscale features is a key opportunity to produce the next generation of higher-performing products and at the same time unveil completely new phenomena. This review article discusses recent advances in the design of novel photonic and plasmonic structures using a biology-inspired design. The proteinaceous capsids from viruses have long been discovered as platform technologies enabling unique applications in nanotechnology, materials, bioengineering, and medicine. In the context of materials applications, the highly organized structures formed by viral capsid proteins provide a 3D scaffold for the precise placement of plasmon and gain materials. Based on their highly symmetrical structures, virus-based nanoparticles have a high propensity to self-assemble into higher-order crystalline structures, yielding hierarchical hybrid materials. Recent advances in the field have led to the development of virus-based light harvesting systems, plasmonic structures for application in high-performance metamaterials, binary nanoparticle lattices, and liquid crystalline arrays for sensing or display technologies. In conclusion, there is still much that could be explored in this area, and we foresee that this is only the beginning of great technological advances in virus-based materials for plasmonics and photonics applications.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0008176; SC0008068
OSTI ID:
1441150
Journal Information:
Rendiconti Lincei, Vol. 26, Issue S2; ISSN 2037-4631
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 10 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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