Refine my results

Natural biopolymers: novel templates for the synthesis of nanostructures

Padalkar, Sonal ; Capadona, Jephrey R. ; Rowan, Suart J. ; Weder, Christoph ; Won, Yu-Ho ; Stanciu, Lia A. ; Moon, Robert J.

In: Langmuir, 2010, vol. 26, no. 11, p. 8497–8502

Biological systems such as proteins, viruses, and DNA have been most often reported to be used as templates for the synthesis of functional nanomaterials, but the properties of widely available biopolymers, such as cellulose, have been much less exploited for this purpose. Here, we report for the first time that cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) have the capacity to assist in the synthesis of metallic...