Nanosized bioscaffolds can be utilized to tackle the challenge of size reduction of metallic rings owing to their miniature features as well as their well-known biomineralization capacity. The tobacco mosaic virus coat protein is used as a command surface to grow and assemble silver nanoparticles into sub-30 nm rings. The versatility of TMV allows the formation of both solid silver rings and rings consisting of discrete silver nanoparticles. The pH-dependent coulombic surface map along with the annular geometry of the protein aggregate allow the generation of rings with or without a central nanoparticle. Our silver rings are believed to be the smallest to date, and they can offer a test material for existing theories on metallic nanorings of this heretofore unreached size scale.
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Bayram, S., Zahr, O., Del Re, J., & Blum, A. S. (2018). TMV disk scaffolds for making sub-30 nm silver nanorings. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1798, pp. 109–118). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7893-9_9
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