Viruses are nanoscale entities containing a nucleic acid genome encased in a protein shell
called a capsid and in some cases are surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. This review …

Understanding how chemically derived processes control the construction and organization
of matter across extended and multiple length scales is of growing interest in many areas of …

A large number of synthetic and natural compounds self-organize into bulk phases
exhibiting periodicities on the 10-8–10-6 metre scale as a consequence of their molecular …

Viruses are nanosized, genome-filled protein containers with remarkable thermodynamic
and mechanical properties. They form by spontaneous self-assembly inside the crowded …

We show that the icosahedral packings of protein capsomeres proposed by Caspar and
Klug for spherical viruses become unstable to faceting for sufficiently large virus size, in …

Self-assembly is a ubiquitous process in synthetic and biological systems, broadly defined
as the spontaneous organization of multiple subunits (macromolecules, particles, etc.) into …

With few exceptions, the shells (capsids) of sphere-like viruses have the symmetry of an
icosahedron and are composed of coat proteins (subunits) assembled in special motifs, the …

We develop a class of models with which we simulate the assembly of particles into T1
capsidlike objects using Newtonian dynamics. By simulating assembly for many different …

Viruses play a role in a significant portion of human diseases, as well as those of other
animals, plants, and bacteria. This chapter focuses on the use of theoretical and …

This study concerns the self-assembly of virus-like particles (VLPs) composed of an
icosahedral virus protein coat encapsulating a functionalized spherical nanoparticle core …