Poriferan chitin as a versatile template for extreme biomimetics

Polymers

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 235-265

  Wysokowski, Marcin ^a   Petrenko, Iaroslav ^b   Stelling, Allison L ^c   Stawski, Dawid ^d   Jesionowski, Teofil ^a   Ehrlich, Hermann ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chitin; Extreme biomimetics; Hydrothermal synthesis; Scaffolds; Sponges

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES; BIOMIMETICS; BIOPOLYMERS; CHITIN; SCAFFOLDS; WATER FILTRATION;

BIOINORGANIC; BIOSENSING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MATERIAL SCIENCE; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SHORT HISTORY; SPONGES;

HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84923806725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym7020235     Document Type: Article

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