See Erik's homepage http://www.cemes.fr/r1_labo/ErikDujardin/Dujardin_Biosketch.htm

In 2000-2001, I was a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow in Prof. S. Mann's group (Bristol, UK) where I worked on various projects in biomimetic nanomaterial chemistry. Among others, I used DNA duplexes to organize gold nanorods into uniaxially ordered aggregates and Tobacco Mosaic Virus to direct the nucleation of metal nanoparticles on its inner or outer surfaces. Chiral mesoporous silica was obtained by mineralization of cellulose nanorod liquid crystal phases. The morphology of molecule-based magnets (Prussian blue analogs) was controlled by way of water-in-oil microemulsion synthesis (yielding to nanocubes) or templated synthesis in colloidal crystals (yielding macroporous, 3D ordered inverse opal structures).