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En route to patchy superlattices

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The electrostatic interaction between protein cages and charged gold nanoparticles can be used to assemble nanoparticle superlattices with structures that have not been observed before in nature.

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Figure 1: Schematic illustration of the gold nanoparticle-mediated assembly of CCMV into crystalline superlattices with a face-centred cubic (FCC) AB8 structure.

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  1. Mathew M. Maye is at the Department of Chemistry and Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA,

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Maye, M. En route to patchy superlattices. Nature Nanotech 8, 5–6 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.244

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