Microbial Polysaccharides Template Assembly of Nanocrystal Fibers

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5664, 2004, Pages 1656-1658

  Chan, Clara S ^a   De Stasio, Gelsomina ^b,d   Welch, Susan A ^c,g   Girasole, Marco ^e   Frazer, Bradley N ^b,d   Nesterova, Maria V ^c,h   Fakra, Sirine ^f   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PROTON GRADIENTS; SPECTROMICROSCOPY;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOFILM; BIOMINERALIZATION; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; ECOSYSTEM; LEPTOTHRIX; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERRITINS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; GALLIONELLACEAE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEPTOTHRIX; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MINING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOTHRIX;

EID: 1542618114     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092098     Document Type: Article

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