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Mesoporous Silica: A Perfectly Periodic Three‐Dimensional Protein/Silica Mesoporous Structure Produced by an Organism (Adv. Mater. 11/2014)
Author(s) -
Zlotnikov Igor,
Werner Peter,
Blumtritt Horst,
Graff Andreas,
Dauphin Yannicke,
Zolotoyabko Emil,
Fratzl Peter
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201470072
Subject(s) - mesoporous silica , materials science , mesoporous material , tetragonal crystal system , sponge , biomineralization , protein filament , chemical engineering , crystallography , hydrothermal circulation , precipitation , nanotechnology , crystal structure , organic chemistry , composite material , chemistry , biology , botany , engineering , catalysis , physics , meteorology
The discovery of a perfectly ordered 3D mesoporous protein/silica structure in the axial filament of the marine sponge Monorhaphis chuni is reported by I. Zlotnikov and co‐workers on page 1682. The structure belongs to a body‐centered tetragonal symmetry system and comprises interconnecting lattices of protein (red) and silica (green), templated by the self‐assembled, enzymatically active protein silicatein, whose primary function is the precipitation of silica.
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