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SUBMITTER: Tronolone JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6781059 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tronolone James J JJ Orrill Michael M Song Wonbin W Kim Hyun Soo HS Lee Byung Yang BY LeBlanc Saniya S
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20190913 9
Filamentous viruses called M13 bacteriophages are promising materials for devices with thin film coatings because phages are functionalizable, and they can self-assemble into smectic helicoidal nanofilament structures. However, the existing "pulling" approach to align the nanofilaments is slow and limits potential commercialization of this technology. This study uses an applied electric field to rapidly align the nanostructures in a fixed droplet. The electric field reduces pinning of the three- ...[more]