This illustration reveals how the arrangement of molecular building blocks results in materials with unique properties, both in nature and in the laboratory.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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In this NSF webcast, University of California at Berkeley bioengineer Seung-Wuk Lee describes how his team developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently manufacture novel nanomaterials using viruses as the building blocks.
Credit: National Science Foundation
View a video showing a new process using viruses to assemble collagen-like materials.
Credit: Video by Woo-Jae Chung, UC Berkeley
Tiny patches of the new virus-based materials reveal different textures and different properties for reflecting light.
Credit: University of California at Berkeley
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Seung-Wuk Lee and Woojae Chung, both of the University of California at Berkeley, use an atomic force microscope to analyze the ramen-noddle-like nanostructure fabricated through a self-templated materials assembly process of viral particles.
Credit: University of California at Berkeley
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