Towards multifunctional inorganic materials: biopolymeric templates

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Editors: Prof. Claudia Steinem, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
and Prof. Joachim Bill, Universität Stuttgart
 
Inorganic functional materials are widely applied due to their electrical, optical, magnetic and mechanical properties. Accordingly, these materials exhibit an enormous impact on key technologies relevant for future fields such as energy generation and storage as well as information and medical technology. The manufacturing of such materials is usually performed at elevated temperature and pressure combined with enormous experimental effort and extensive equipment. In contrast, biomineralization processes have been evolutionarily optimized over millions of years and involve biopolymeric templates in an aqueous environment. The resulting combination of inorganic and bioorganic components yields biominerals with unique multifunctional features. The reader of this series will gain a comprehensive overview about the general ideas and principles of biopolymeric templating.
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Towards multifunctional inorganic materials: biopolymeric templates

  • Claudia Steinem and
  • Joachim Bill

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1698–1699, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.172

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Published 05 Aug 2015

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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 554–560, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.65

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  • Xiaohong Wang,
  • Heinz C. Schröder and
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 610–621, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.72

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  • Ahmed Salama,
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1553–1568, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.167

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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1712–1724, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.181

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  • Anna Pohl and
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1823–1835, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.193

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Published 22 Oct 2014
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  • Laura C. Preiss,
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2129–2138, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.222

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Published 17 Nov 2014

Chemoselective silicification of synthetic peptides and polyamines

  • Maryna Abacilar,
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 103–110, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.10

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  • Maria Siglreitmeier,
  • Baohu Wu,
  • Tina Kollmann,
  • Martin Neubauer,
  • Gergely Nagy,
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 134–148, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.13

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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 785–791, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.81

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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 799–808, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.83

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Published 24 Mar 2015

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  • Klara Altintoprak,
  • Axel Seidenstücker,
  • Alexander Welle,
  • Sabine Eiben,
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  • Alfred Plettl,
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1399–1412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.145

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Published 25 Jun 2015

Template-controlled mineralization: Determining film granularity and structure by surface functionality patterns

  • Nina J. Blumenstein,
  • Jonathan Berson,
  • Stefan Walheim,
  • Petia Atanasova,
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1763–1768, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.180

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Published 20 Aug 2015
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