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  1. Formation of regularly structured silica valves of various diatom species is a particularly fascinating phenomenon in biomineralization. Intensive investigations have been devoted to elucidate the formation me...

    Authors: Manfred Bobeth, Arezoo Dianat, Rafael Gutierrez, David Werner, Hongliu Yang, Hagen Eckert and Gianaurelio Cuniberti
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Diatoms are single-celled microalgae that produce silica-based cell walls with intricate nano- and micropatterns. Biogenesis of diatom biosilica is a bottom-up process that occurs in large intracellular compar...

    Authors: Christoph Heintze, Petr Formanek, Darius Pohl, Jannes Hauptstein, Bernd Rellinghaus and Nils Kröger
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:11
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  3. Chitin constitutes an abundant component in many biologically formed minerals (biominerals). While the role of chitin for the formation and properties of calcium-based biominerals has been extensively studied,...

    Authors: Martin Wustmann, Nicole Poulsen, Nils Kröger and Karl-Heinz van Pée
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. The year 2020 will be punctuated by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the history of human civilization. Within four months, COVID-19 has become a public healthcare crisis in all nations around the world....

    Authors: Dongxiao Ji, Li Fan, Xiaoxia Li and Seeram Ramakrishna
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. Stony corals generate their calcium carbonate exoskeleton in a highly controlled biomineralization process mediated by a variety of macromolecules including proteins. Fully identifying and classifying these pr...

    Authors: Yanai Peled, Jeana L. Drake, Assaf Malik, Ricardo Almuly, Maya Lalzar, David Morgenstern and Tali Mass
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:8
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  6. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have proven to be a promising class of drug carriers due to their high porosity, crystalline properties with defined structure information, and abundant surface chemistry for fu...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Xiaoyu Xu, Junnian Zhou, Jiaqi Yan, Dongqing Wang and Hongbo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:7
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  7. Diatoms are a significant group of algae displaying a sizeable morphological diversity, whose underlying structure arises from nanopatterned silica. Extensive experimental evidence suggests that a delicate int...

    Authors: Hagen Eckert, Maria Montagna, Arezoo Dianat, Rafael Gutierrez, Manfred Bobeth and Gianaurelio Cuniberti
    Citation: BMC Materials 2020 2:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Bacterial infections and endotoxin contaminations are serious problems in the production/manufacture of food, water, drinks, and injections. The development of effective materials to kill bacteria and adsorb e...

    Authors: Yuxin Qian, Yue Shen, Shuai Deng, Tingyan Liu, Fan Qi, Ziyi Lu, Longqiang Liu, Ning Shao, Jiayang Xie, Feng Ding and Runhui Liu
    Citation: BMC Materials 2019 1:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MIONPs) play a major role in the emerging fields of nanotechnology to facilitate rapid advancements in biomedical and industrial platforms. The superparamagnetic properties o...

    Authors: Subramanian Natarajan, Kannan Harini, Gnana Prakash Gajula, Bruno Sarmento, Maria Teresa Neves-Petersen and Viruthachalam Thiagarajan
    Citation: BMC Materials 2019 1:2
    Content type: Review Published on:

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