Nature offers us an enormous amount of ready-to-use templates with various morphologies and functionalities, which can be successfully utilized in fabrication of biosensors, tissue engineering, and microelectronics. The directed combination of such natural templates with graphene results in the development of a novel material which uses the features of both. We produced hybrid materials by giving to microorganisms the nutrient to grow together with graphene nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes. Such hybrid materials can be considered as bionic because they have the bene fi ts of both biological world which can self-organize and that of non-living materials, which add functions such as self-healing and electronic transport.
Graphene bionicomposites
VALENTINI, LUCA;BITTOLO BON, SILVIA;
2017
Abstract
Nature offers us an enormous amount of ready-to-use templates with various morphologies and functionalities, which can be successfully utilized in fabrication of biosensors, tissue engineering, and microelectronics. The directed combination of such natural templates with graphene results in the development of a novel material which uses the features of both. We produced hybrid materials by giving to microorganisms the nutrient to grow together with graphene nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes. Such hybrid materials can be considered as bionic because they have the bene fi ts of both biological world which can self-organize and that of non-living materials, which add functions such as self-healing and electronic transport.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
