Observation of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus in the Laboratory Course of Scanning Probe Microscopy
Successful development of the technologies was often followed the path of imitation of natural objects and processes, which called biomimicry. Undoubtedly, the biomimicry has a great potential also in the nanotechnology. The viruses are ones of the simplest (in terms of structure) natural objects, whose dimensions are in the nanometer range. Observation of the tobacco mosaic virus using atomic force microscopy is both fascinating and informative processes.