Synthetic fossilization of soft biological tissues and their shape-preserving transformation into silica or electron-conductive replicas

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Townson, Jason L ^a,b   Lin, Yu Shen ^a,b   Chou, Stanley S ^c   Awad, Yasmine H ^b   Coker, Eric N ^c   Brinker, C Jeffrey ^c,d   Kaehr, Bryan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c ADVANCED MATERIALS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NANOPARTICLE; SILICIC ACID; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN;

ELECTRON; SILICA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; EMBRYO; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMMERSION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS; OXIDATION; PYROLYSIS; RIGIDITY; SYNTHESIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; CARBON; CHICK EMBRYO; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; GOLD; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 84922573200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6665     Document Type: Article

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