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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2007
James N. Culver, Potomac, MD (US);
Michael Harris, Lafayette, IN (US);
Elizabeth Royston, Columbia, MD (US);
James N. Culver, Potomac, MD (US);
Michael Harris, Lafayette, IN (US);
Elizabeth Royston, Columbia, MD (US);
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to high content surface areas containing nickel and/or cobalt metallic compounds assembled on a modified Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) template, wherein the modified TMV template is engineered to encode unique placement of cysteine residues that self-assemble onto gold patterned surfaces in a substantially aligned fashion, producing a >10 fold increase in surface area. Deposition of ionic metals onto the surface assembled virus templates produce uniform metal coatings for the fabrication of oriented high surface area materials.