Extreme Biomimetics

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.

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 psychrophilic 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 Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Hermann Ehrlich is a Professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics, TU Bergkademie Freiberg, Germany.

Inhalt
EPsychrophiles as Source for Bioinspiration in Biomineralization and Biological Materials Science.- Cold Biosilicification in Metazoan: Psychrophilic Glass Sponges.- Psychrophilic Calcification in vitro.- Endemism and Biodiversity of Hydrothermal Vent Fauna.- Comparative in situ Microscopic Observation of Cellulose and Chitin in Hydrothermal Conditions.- Biopolymers for Biomimetic Processing of Metal Oxides.- Thermogravimetric Analysis of Sponge Chitins in Thermooxidative Conditions.- Bioelectrometallurgy of Copper on Chitin.- Hydrothermal Synthesis of Advanced Chitin-Based Materials.- Hydrothermal Synthesis of Spongin-Based Materials.