Advanced Materials, Vol.20, No.11, 2195-2195, 2008
Printing and aligning mesoscale patterns of Tobacco mosaic virus on surfaces
Objects as large as whole virus particles can be printed after adsorption to siloxane stamps. Selective de-wetting of suspensions results in alignment and linear aggregation of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) particles on the stamps, and single-virus lines can be printed. The process consists of simply contacting the stamp with a flat substrate.