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Inside Cover: Controlled Self‐Assembly of Rodlike Bacterial Pili Particles into Ordered Lattices (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 28/2011)
Author(s) -
Cao Binrui,
Xu Hong,
Mao Chuanbin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201103580
Subject(s) - pilus , self assembly , materials science , cover (algebra) , molecule , layer (electronics) , nanotechnology , nanoparticle , inducer , crystallography , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering , escherichia coli , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , gene
Pili are rodlike nanoparticles protruding from bacterial cell surfaces. Once detached, they can form ordered assemblies, including 1D bundles, 2D double‐layer lattices, and 3D multilayer lattices, with the help of inducer molecules. As described by C. Mao and co‐workers in their Communication on page 6264 ff., the assemblies can be used as biotemplates to induce the formation and organization of other materials.