Self-assembly of tobacco mosaic virus at oil/water interfaces

Jinbo He, Zhongwei Niu, Ravisubhash Tangirala, Jia Yu Wang, Xinyu Wei, Gagandeep Kaur, Qian Wang, Günther Jutz, Alexander Böker, Byeongdu Lee, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Todd Emrick, Thomas P. Russell

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Abstract

The oil/water interfacial assembly of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) has been studied in situ by tensiometry and small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS and SANS). TMV showed different orientations at the perfluorodecalin/water interface, depending on the initial TMV concentration in the aqueous phase. At low TMV concentration, the rods oriented parallel to the interface, mediating the interfacial interactions at the greatest extent per particle. At high TMV concentrations, the rods were oriented normal to the interface, mediating the interfacial interactions and also neutralizing inter-rod electrostatic repulsion. We found that the inter-rod repulsive forces between TMVs dominated the in-plane packing, which was strongly affected by the ionic strength and the bulk solution but not by the pH in the range of pH = 6-8.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4979-4987
Number of pages9
JournalLangmuir
Volume25
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 5 2009
Externally publishedYes

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