Browsing by Subject "biosilica"

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    • Diatoms: a biotemplating approach to fabricating drug delivery reservoirs 

      Chao, Joshua T; Biggs, Manus JP; Pandit, Abhay S (Informa Healthcare, 2014-08-22)
      Biotemplating is a rapidly expanding subfield that utilizes nature-inspired systems and structures to create novel functional materials, and it is through these methods that the limitations of current engineering practices ...

    • Functionalization of the living diatom thalassiosira weissflogii with thiol moieties 

      Lang, Yvonne; del Monte, Francisco; Collins, Liam; Rodriguez, Brian J.; Thompson, Kerry; Dockery, Peter; Finn, David P.; Pandit, Abhay (Springer Nature, 2013-11-01)
      Biomineralization processes identified within diatoms have inspired the design of synthetic silica structures in vitro using alkoxysilane precursors. Here we explore the use of the machinery within the living diatom to ...

    • Integration of tio2 into the diatom thalassiosira weissflogii during frustule synthesis 

      Lang, Yvonne; Monte, Francisco del; Rodriguez, Brian J.; Dockery, Peter; Finn, David P.; Pandit, Abhay (Springer Nature, 2013-11-13)
      Nature has inspired the design of complex hierarchical structures in the field of material science. Diatoms, unicellular algae with a hallmark intricate siliceous cell wall, have provided such a stimulus. Altering the ...