Plant Pathology Department

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

PHYSICAL REVIEW E 90, 022718 (2014). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.022718

Comments

©2014 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

In order to test the application of the “nanoparticle” concept to viruses in terms of low-frequency dynamics, large viruses (140–190 nm) were compared to similar-sized polymer colloids using ultra-small-angle x-ray scattering and very-low-frequency Raman or Brillouin scattering. While both viruses and polymer colloids show comparable highly defined morphologies, with comparable abilities of forming self-assembled structures, their respective abilities to confine detectable acoustic vibrations, as expected for such monodisperse systems, differed. Possible reasons for these different behaviors are discussed.

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