Preparation of nanowires based on the tobacco mosaic virus and gold nanoparticles

Abstract

The technique of producing nanowires based on TMV and gold nanoparticle, which consists of multiple cycles of sequentially adding the metal source, viruses and reduced agent, was developed. A study carried out of the physicochemical properties and the morphology of the nanowires obtained by atomic force microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy "angular resolution". It was found that the resulting hybrid virus-inorganic structure prefer to cluster ordering. Interaction nanowires with the substrate characterized C-N bond. Bond N-C=O characterized binding virions with each other.