Bioinspired Nanostructures for Innovative Functional Applications
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomimetics of Materials and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2022) | Viewed by 6292
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature is the supreme architect of biogenic materials. Natural materials are characterized by simplicity in their chemical composition, which is practically limited to carbonates, silicates, phosphates, halogenates, and oxides. They show a large compositional heterogeneity and have structural disorder, a low degree of crystallinity due to structural vacancies, and elementary substitution. All biogenic materials are structurally and morphologically characterized by a hierarchical assembly from nano- to macroscale. From the initial single nanometric nuclei, subsequent structural building can be a process of spontaneous self-assembly or it can be mediated by organic molecules, such as proteins and saccharides, that serve as a template. These natural nanometric particles have a high surface area and excellent chemical reactivity. Biogenic materials show high cycling stress resistance and capacity for self-repair.
If we want to synthesize new biomimetic materials, we have to employ biomimetic synthetic processes involving soft and mild conditions in water, avoiding organic solvents and toxic compounds while using self-assembly modes and macromolecular template intermediation processes.
The biomimetic approach requires the multidisciplinary involvement of chemists, physicians, biologists, geologists, naturalists and engineers, not only to try to understand Nature but also to synthesize innovative materials with the superior functionality of natural materials.
In this Special Issue, we would like to collect interdisciplinary papers that represent the efforts of research in mimicking Nature to produce innovative and functional nanostructured materials.
Prof. Dr. Norberto Roveri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomimetics
- nanostructures
- self-assembly
- template intermediation
- self-repair
- bacterial interaction
- virus interaction
- stress resistance
- crystallinity
- biomaterials
- nanostructures
