Volume 50, Issue 18 pp. 4202-4205
Communication

Tunable, Discrete, Three-Dimensional Hybrid Nanoarchitectures

Dr. Feng Li

Dr. Feng Li

Division of Nanobiomedicine and i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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Ding Gao

Ding Gao

State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 (China), Fax: (+86) 27-8719-9492

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Dr. Xiaomin Zhai

Dr. Xiaomin Zhai

Division of Nanobiomedicine and i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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Yanhua Chen

Yanhua Chen

Division of Nanobiomedicine and i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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Dr. Tao Fu

Dr. Tao Fu

Division of Nanobiomedicine and i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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Prof. Dr. Dongmin Wu

Prof. Dr. Dongmin Wu

Division of Nanobiomedicine and i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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Prof. Zhi-Ping Zhang

Prof. Zhi-Ping Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 (China), Fax: (+86) 27-8719-9492

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Prof. Dr. Xian-En Zhang

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Xian-En Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 (China), Fax: (+86) 27-8719-9492

Xian-En Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 (China), Fax: (+86) 27-8719-9492

Qiangbin Wang, Division of Nanobiomedicine andi-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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Prof. Dr. Qiangbin Wang

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Qiangbin Wang

Division of Nanobiomedicine and i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

Xian-En Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 (China), Fax: (+86) 27-8719-9492

Qiangbin Wang, Division of Nanobiomedicine andi-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 (China), Fax: (+86) 512-6287-2620

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First published: 06 April 2011
Citations: 48

F.L. acknowledges funding by NSFC (Grant No. 31040032); Q.W acknowledges funding by the “Bairen Ji Hua” program from CAS, MOST (Grant No. 2011CB965004), NSFC (Grant No. 20173225, 91023038), and CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams; Z.Z. thanks funding by MOST (Grant No. 2011CB933600). The authors thank Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley for helpful discussions; Gang Ji and Lijun Bi at Institute of Biophysics, CAS for assistance in cryo-TEM sampling and testing; Haomiao Zhu and Xueyuan Chen at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS for help with time-resolved fluorescence measurement; and Wen Zhao for 3D drawings. The authors express their appreciation to Electron Microscope Lab at Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, CAS for the TEM facilities used in this research.

Graphical Abstract

Virus-based nanoparticle scaffolds (VNPs) were used for two-step construction of discrete 3D nanoarchitectures (see picture): 1) loading of quantum dots (QDs) into VNPs formed by cysteine-modified capsid protein VP1 of simian virus 40; 2) attaching controlled numbers of Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) to VNP surfaces through AuS bond formation.

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