A review on the green and sustainable synthesis of silver nanoparticles and one-dimensional silver nanostructures

• Sina Kaabipour and
• Shohreh Hemmati

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 102–136, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.9

• promising approach towards the production of AgNPs; however, the pathogenic behavior of the fungi and long synthesis periods compared to other green methods makes it inferior among green synthesis processes. 3.3 Plant virus template-mediated synthesis Plant-based viruses as biotemplates have been rarely

Fabrication of gold-coated PDMS surfaces with arrayed triangular micro/nanopyramids for use as SERS substrates

• Jingran Zhang,
• Yongda Yan,
• Peng Miao and
• Jianxiong Cai

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2271–2282, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.227

• using imprint lithography. Several researchers have used biological organisms as biotemplates, such as the wings of cicadas [17][18] and butterflies [19][20][21]. A nanostructured SERS substrate was achieved for the replication of a biotemplate of a cicada wing and low concentrations of thiophenol and

Templated green synthesis of plasmonic silver nanoparticles in onion epidermal cells suitable for surface-enhanced Raman and hyper-Raman scattering

• Marta Espina Palanco,
• Klaus Bo Mogensen,
• Marina Gühlke,
• Zsuzsanna Heiner,
• Janina Kneipp and
• Katrin Kneipp

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 834–840, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.75

• demonstrate a templated green preparation of enhancing plasmonic nanoparticles and suggest a new route to deliver silver nanoparticles as basic building blocks of plasmonic nanosensors to plants by the uptake of solutions of metal salts. Keywords: biotemplates; green preparation; onion; plasmonic

Novel roles for well-known players: from tobacco mosaic virus pests to enzymatically active assemblies

• Claudia Koch,
• Fabian J. Eber,
• Carlos Azucena,
• Alexander Förste,
• Stefan Walheim,
• Thomas Schimmel,
• Alexander M. Bittner,
• Holger Jeske,
• Hartmut Gliemann,
• Sabine Eiben,
• Fania C. Geiger and
• Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 613–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.54

• versatile biotemplates for the fabrication of hybrid nanostructures and the high-density presentation of functional compounds. New applications of viruses in nanotechnology Virus-based nanotechnology In addition to virological research in the original sense, investigating, e.g., virus structure, replication

• scaffolding biotemplates in various applications, ranging from biosensing to tumor therapeutics. Hence, in the recent past, the number of reports on the successful construction of advantageous virus-derived hybrid materials and devices has been growing rapidly and reviewed extensively [5][7][8][65][66][67][68

• enzymes might therefore result in biological production platforms for resveratrol or further “functional food” ingredients, employing potato or other plant-virus derived biotemplates as an immobilization matrix. The strategies shown to work for the use of enzymes on TMV carrier particles are presented in

Peptide-equipped tobacco mosaic virus templates for selective and controllable biomineral deposition

• Klara Altintoprak,
• Axel Seidenstücker,
• Alexander Welle,
• Sabine Eiben,
• Petia Atanasova,
• Nina Stitz,
• Alfred Plettl,
• Joachim Bill,
• Hartmut Gliemann,
• Holger Jeske,
• Dirk Rothenstein,
• Fania Geiger and
• Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1399–1412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.145

• regular-shaped, readily available nanorod biotemplates with inorganic compounds has attracted increasing interest during recent years. The goal is an effective, bioinspired fabrication of fiber-reinforced composites and robust, miniaturized technical devices. Major challenges in the synthesis of

• , peptides spatially immobilized in a selective manner on certain target sites of biotemplates might also be a clue to the use of silica deposition as a “bionic glue”. On appropriate TMV variants, specific coupling groups of amino acids are confined to outer, inner or end surfaces of the nucleoprotein tubes

• virus particles with thousands of surface-exposed amino groups of lysine residues (TMVLys) served as biotemplates for chemical conjugation reactions. (b) Hetero-bifunctional linker molecules (succinimidyl-(N-maleimidopropionamido) ester, SM(PEG)4) were coupled to TMVLys via N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS

Functionalization of α-synuclein fibrils

• Simona Povilonienė,
• Vida Časaitė,
• Virginijus Bukauskas,
• Arūnas Šetkus,
• Juozas Staniulis and
• Rolandas Meškys

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 124–133, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.12

• extremely stable physical and chemical properties, amyloid fibrils can be successfully modified using a variety of modification agents. The fibrils of α-Syn and other proteins or peptides were successfully utilized as biotemplates for the enzyme immobilization [25][26] or for the production of nanowires [30

Apertureless scanning near-field optical microscopy of sparsely labeled tobacco mosaic viruses and the intermediate filament desmin

• Alexander Harder,
• Mareike Dieding,
• Volker Walhorn,
• Sven Degenhard,
• Andreas Brodehl,
• Christina Wege,
• Hendrik Milting and
• Dario Anselmetti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 510–516, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.60

• channel [25]. Apart from plant research, TMV is also important for nanotechnology applications of virus-derived biotemplates [26][27][28][29]. The self-assembly of the capsid components and the homogeneous nucleoprotein tube diameter make TMV an attractive scaffold for nanotechnological applications such