Chapter 11Nanostructured Silica from Diatoms Microalgae: Smart Materials for Photonics and Electronics
Roberta Ragni1, Stefania R. Cicco2, Danilo Vona1 and Gianluca M. Farinola1
1Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Dipartimento di Chimica, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
2CNR-ICCOM Bari, Dipartimento di Chimica, Via Orabona, 4-70126, BARI (Italy)
11.1 Diatoms: Living Cells in Glass Houses
The search for scalable routes to nanostructured materials with precise size, shape, and morphology represents a challenging task in current nanotechnology. Materials scientists are more and more looking at Nature as their source of inspiration for manufacturing complex architectures with ordered features from the micro- to the nanoscale. In fact, ...
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