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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 22, 期 16, 页码 4612-4618出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm100657w
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- NASA Astrobiology Institute [NNA08-85A]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-07ER46477]
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) [P20 RR-16455-08]
- National Science Foundation through Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) [CHE0714183]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-ACO2-06CH11357]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-07ER46477] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Protein cages such as ferritins and virus capsids have been used as containers to synthesize a wide variety of protein-templated inorganic nanoparticles. While identification of the inorganic crystal phase has been successful in some cases, very little is known about the detailed nanoscale structure of the inorganic component. We have used pair distribution function analysis of total X-ray scattering to measure the crystalline domain size in nanoparticles of ferrihydrite, gamma-Fe2O3, Mn3O4, CoPt, and FePt grown inside 24-meric ferritin cages from H. sapiens and P. furiosus. The material properties of these protein-templated nanoparticles are influenced by processes at a variety of length scales: the chemistry of the material determines the precise arrangement of atoms at very short distances, while the interior volume of the protein cage constrains the maximum nanoparticle size attainable. At intermediate length scales, the size of coherent crystalline domains appears to be constrained by the arrangement of crystal nucleation sites on the interior of the cage. On the basis of these observations, some potential synthetic strategies for the control of crystalline domain size in protein-templated nanoparticles are suggested.
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