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Diatom silica, an emerging biomaterial for energy conversion and storage

Published:2017 Issue:19 Volume:5 Page:8847-8859
ISSN:2050-7488
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry A
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. A

Author:

Sun Xiao Wen¹²³⁴⁵,Zhang Yu Xin¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Losic Dusan⁶⁷⁸⁹

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions

2. College of Materials Science and Engineering

3. Chongqing University

4. Chongqing 400044

5. P. R. China

6. The School of Chemical Engineering

7. University of Adelaide

8. Adelaide 5005

9. Australia

Abstract

Diatom silica, a 3-dimensional (3D) natural biomaterial generated from single cell algae with unique nano- and micro-morphologies and patterns is shown to have several exceptional structural, mechanical, optical, photonics, transport, and chemical properties optimized through millions of years of evolution.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/TA/C7TA02045G

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