MIT biological engineer Angela Belcher is using viruses to grow materials for bio-batteries.
Fibres can be utilised as reinforcement in bio-degradable composites and as a source of raw materials for bio-energy and biochemical production.
Collagen networks provide the main structural component of most tissues and represent an important ingredient for bio-mimetic materials for bio-medical applications.
As the use of organic inorganic hybrid materials for bio-application has become a hot subject in the research field currently [28 31], MWNTs-GNQ may be used to build nanosensor devices to sense directly in intracellular environment, because carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can penetrate into cells and almost have no toxicity to organism [32, 33].
Our investigations are also of importance in the development of peptide-based materials for bio-/nanotechnology, in particular in applications where tuneable alterations in surface chemistry are required, such as biosensor coatings, because of the surfactant properties of the chaplin peptides.
These substrates included purified cellulose and hemicellulose, pretreated biomass similar to materials for bio-refineries and untreated plant cell walls representing agricultural by-products and dedicated biofuel crops.
Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L., AACC, 2n = 38) is one of the most important oil crops in the world, which provides not only edible oil but also raw materials for bio-energy applications.
The models developed need to be further expanded by adding the findings for polyurethane ionomers; these are planned to be presented in part 2 of this paper, to make the models applicable in designing materials for bio-outlets and for protective coatings.
So it is a most promising non-crop-based raw material for bio-fuel production.
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a common material for bio-microfluidic chip but suffers from hydrophobic surface problem.
For example, gold nanofluids are a promising material for bio-applications because of their biocompatibility and thermo-optical properties.
