Extreme biomimetics /

Extreme biomimetics /

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Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ©2017.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Biomimetics.
Biomimetic materials.
Extreme environments -- Microbiology.
Biomimetic materials.
Biomimetics.
Extreme environments -- Microbiology.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11267231
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Other authors / contributors:Ehrlich, Hermann, editor.
ISBN:9783319453408
3319453408
9783319453385
3319453386
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2016).
Summary:This book discusses the current direction of the research approach to extreme biomimetics through biological materials-inspired chemistry and its applications in modern technology and medicine. It is a resource covering topics of extreme (psychrophilic and thermopilic) biomineralization, solvothermal and hydrothermal chemistry of metal oxides and nanostructured composites, and bioinspired materials science in a diverse areas. The authors review the current advances in the extreme biomimetics research field and describe various approaches introduced and explored by their respective laboratories.? Details the basic principles of extreme biomimetics approach for design of new materials and applications;? Includes numerous examples of the hierarchical organization of hydrothermally or psychrophilically obtained biocomposites, structural bioscaffolds, biosculpturing, biomimetism, and bioinspiration as tools for the design of innovative materials;? Describes and details the principles of extreme biomimetics with respect to metallization of chemically and thermally stable biopolymers.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319453385
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-45340-8
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This book discusses the current direction of the research approach to extreme biomimetics through biological materials-inspired chemistry and its applications in modern technology and medicine. It is a resource covering topics of extreme (psychrophilic and thermopilic) biomineralization, solvothermal and hydrothermal chemistry of metal oxides and nanostructured composites, and bioinspired materials science in a diverse areas. The authors review the current advances in the extreme biomimetics research field and describe various approaches introduced and explored by their respective laboratories.

* Details the basic principles of extreme biomimetics approach for design of new materials and applications;

* Includes numerous examples of the hierarchical organization of hydrothermally or psychrophilically obtained biocomposites, structural bioscaffolds, biosculpturing, biomimetism, and bioinspiration as tools for the design of innovative materials;

* Describes and details the principles of extreme biomimetics with respect to metallization of chemically and thermally stable biopolymers.

Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783319453408
3319453408
9783319453385
3319453386

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