Sol-gel synthesis on self-replicating single-cell scaffolds: applying complex chemistries to nature's 3-D nanostructured templates.
A sol-gel process was used, for the first time, to apply a multi-component, nanocrystalline, functional ceramic compound (BaTiO3) to a three-dimensional, self-replicating scaffold derived from a single-celled micro-organism (a diatom).
Weatherspoon
Michael R
MR
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Allan
Shawn M
SM
Hunt
Eden
E
Cai
Ye
Y
Sandhage
Kenneth H
KH