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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moreira Da Silva, Cora
• Ortiz-Peña, Nathaly
• Boubekeur-Lecaque, Leïla
• Dušek, Jakub
• Moravec, Tomáš
• Alloyeau, Damien
• Ha-Duong, Nguyêt-Thanh

Titel

In Situ Insights into the Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of Gold Nanoparticles on Tobacco Mosaic Virus

Ist Teil von

• Nano letters, 2023-06, Vol.23 (11), p.5281-5287

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Biotemplated syntheses have emerged as an efficient strategy to control the assembly of metal nanoparticles (NPs) and generate promising plasmonic properties for sensing or biomedical applications. However, understanding the nucleation and growth mechanisms of metallic nanostructures on biotemplate is an essential prerequisite to developing well-controlled nanotechnologies. Here, we used liquid cell Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to reveal how the formation kinetics of gold NPs affects their size and density on Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV). These in situ insights are used as a guideline to optimize bench-scale synthesis with the possibility to homogenize the coverage and tune the density of gold NPs on TMV. In line with in situ TEM observations, fluorescence spectroscopy confirms that the nucleation of NPs occurs on the virus capsid rather than in solution. The proximity of gold NPs on TMV allows shifting the plasmonic resonance of the assembly in the biological window.