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Ceramics cling to long bacterial strings

Long threads of connected bacteria can serve as templates for making ceramic fibers.

 

References:

Davis, S.A. . . . N.H. Mendelson . . . S. Mann. 1998. Brittle bacteria: A biomimetic approach to the formation of fibrous composite materials. Chemistry of Materials 10(Sept. 21):2516.

 

Further Readings:

Davis, S.A. . . . S. Mann. 1997. Bacterial templating of ordered macrostructures in silica and silica-surfactant mesophases. Nature 385(Jan. 30):420.

Lipkin, R. 1994. Mendelson’s web. Science News 145(Feb. 12):106.

Mann, S., and G.A. Ozin. 1996. Synthesis of inorganic materials with complex form. Nature 382(July 25):313.

 

Sources:

Richard M. Laine
University of Michigan
Department of Chemistry
930 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055

Stephen Mann
University of Bath
Department of Chemistry
6W-1.12
Bath BA2 7AY
United Kingdom

Neil H. Mendelson
University of Arizona
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Life Sciences South 354
P.O. Box 210106
Tucson, AZ 85721-0106

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 13, September 26, 1998, p. 198.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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