Sporopollenin, the least known yet toughest natural biopolymer

Frontiers in Materials

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mackenzie, Grahame ^a,b   Boa, Andrew N ^a   Diego Taboada, Alberto ^a,b   Atkin, Stephen L ^c   Sathyapalan, Thozhukat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b Sporomex Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Exines; Microcapsules; Pollen; Spores; Sporopollenin

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPOLYMERS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CROSSLINKING; HYDROCARBONS; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION EXCHANGE; KETONES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

EXINES; MICROCAPSULES; POLLEN; SPORES; SPOROPOLLENIN;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 85006758905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22968016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2015.00066     Document Type: Short Survey

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