“…Of particular interest to this review are viral-templated photonic and plasmonic materials with applications spanning the fields of sensing (Wang, Sun, Li, Wu, & Wei, 2016), nanomedicine (Young, Willits, Uchida, & Douglas, 2008), energy transfer and conversion (Spillmann & Medintz, 2015;Vilona et al, 2015), metamaterials (De Luca et al, 2015;DuFort & Dragnea, 2010;Wen, Podgornik, Strangi, & Steinmetz, 2015), and nanoparticle (NP) synthesis (Bain & Staniland, 2015;Voet & Tame, 2017). These will be covered in five sections, which will include: (1) biological, chemical, and physical sensors, (2) platforms for cellular imaging, drug delivery, and phototherapy, (3) solar cell devices, light harvesting complexes, and photocatalytic platforms, (4) materials that possess negative index of refraction, artificial magnetism, or field-amplifying properties, and (5) plasmonic and magnetic NPs.…”