Issue 75, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Biomimetic synthesis of silica nanostructures with controllable morphologies and sizes through tuning interfacial interactions†

Shengjie Wang,a   Junyi Xue,a   Xin Ge,a   Haiming Fan,a   Hai Xu*a  and  Jian R. Lu*b  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
E-mail: xuh@upc.edu.cn
Tel: +86 532 8698 1569

b Biological Physics Laboratory, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Schuster Building, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
E-mail: j.lu@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 3926

Abstract

By manipulating the interfacial interactions between the peptide templates and the silicate species derived from TEOS and APTES, a facile biomimetic method was developed for the fabrication of silica nanostructures exhibiting “string-of-beads” and fibrillar morphologies of varied sizes.

Graphical abstract: Biomimetic synthesis of silica nanostructures with controllable morphologies and sizes through tuning interfacial interactions

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC34667B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Jun 2012
Accepted
30 Jul 2012
First published
31 Jul 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 9415-9417

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Biomimetic synthesis of silica nanostructures with controllable morphologies and sizes through tuning interfacial interactions

S. Wang, J. Xue, X. Ge, H. Fan, H. Xu and J. R. Lu, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 9415 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34667B

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