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Biomolecular self-assembly

Stacks of viruses

Self-assembly of soft materials has achieved structural periodicity of tens of nanometres. Layered superlattices prepared from viruses and lipid membranes could now be used as templates for organising macromolecules.

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Figure 1: Polyelectrolyte/lipid membranes.

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Koltover, I. Stacks of viruses. Nature Mater 3, 584–586 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1200

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