Biotemplating : complex structures from natural materials

• Main Author: Hall, Simon R.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Bioengineering.; Biomolecules.; Macromolecules.; Biotechnology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781848164048; 1848164041; 9781613440834; 1613440839; 1848164033; 9781848164031
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : illustrations (some color)

In terms of structural complexity, the natural world presents innumerable examples of stunning beauty and high functionality, usually with the minimum of material and energy expenditure. Materials chemists can harness these amazing structures as ready-made scaffolds on which to grow inorganic phases...