Biomimetic Materials Chemistry

Stephen Mann, FRS, FRSC, is Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry, Director of the Centre for Protolife Research, and Principal of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Bristol, UK.

• From the Contents:Biomineralization and Biomimetic Chemistry/Biomimetic Strategies and Materials Processing/ Biogenic Cadmium Sulfide Semiconductors/Biomimetic Synthesis of Nanoscale Particles in Organized Protein Cages/Biomimetic Approaches to Nanoscale Fabrication/Template-directed Nucleation and Growth of Inorganic Materials/Construction of Organized Particulate Films by the Langmuir-Blodgett Technique/Organization of Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Electrical Spectroscopies/Polyamino Acids as Antiscalants, Dispersants, Antifreezes and Absorbent Gelling Materials/Bacterial Fibers and their Mineralized Products: Bionites/Biomimetic Inorganic-organic Composites/Organoceramic Nanocomposites/Ceramics Processing with Biogenic Additives.