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Researchers from the University of Tsukuba used a liquid crystal structure assembled from linear viruses as a template for synthesizing conducting polymer. Polypyrrole was grown from a helical structure of linear fb phage viruses using a chemical-electrochemical double-step method. The resulting polymer had a network structure similar to that of neural axons, and antiferromagnetic properties. It is hoped that the virus-polymer conjugates will be used for virus detection as well as in bacteria-targeting systems.
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