Biological materials, colloidal

Zhou, C., Qi, K., Wooley, K.L., Walker, A.V. (2008) Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, fluorescence microscopy and scanning electron microscopy combined tools for monitoring the process of pattering and layer-by-layer assembly of synthetic and biological materials. Colloids Surf. B Biointerfaces, 65(1), 85-91. 

The majority of the research is focused on colloidal and biological materials. In several textbooks [86,101,136,187] the related methods are elaborated. Recent developments are considered in a review of Svergun and Koch [188],... 

Fouling material biological fouling colloids scaling organics metal oxides proteins... 

The use of templates to control the porosity of solids is not limited to small organic molecules. Alternative templates include dendrimers [16, 17], polymers [18], hard templates such as nanoparticle colloidal suspensions [19] and latex spheres [20] or even biological materials like butterfly wings [21], DNA [22] or viruses [23]. 

The gold clusters appear to be ideal models for bulk metals, metal surfaces, and colloidal particles. The gold clusters are used for labelling in electron microscopy studies of biological materials. 

Millqvish-Fureby A, Malmsten M, Bergenstahl B. An aqueous polymer two-phase system as carrier in the spray-drying of biological material. J Colloid Interface Sci 225(1)54-61, 2000. 

Materials of interest include metals and alloys, semiconductors, ceramics and ionic solids, concrete, dielectrics and polymers, composites, biological materials including proteins and enzymes, membranes and coatings, aqueous and nonaqueous solvents and solutions, molten salts, catalytic materials, colloids, surfactants and inhibitors, and emulsions and foams. 

Typical Electrokinetic Parameters of Colloidal and Biological Materials... 

The diversity of reactions which actinides can undergo in natural waters is pres ted schematically in Figure 22.9. Complexation by anions such as hydroxide, carbonate, phosphate, humates, etc. determine the species in solution. Sorption to colloids and suspended material increases the actinide concentration in the water while precipitation of hydroxides, phosphates, carbonates, and/or sorption to mineral and biological material limit the amount in the solution phase. 

Biological materials are, almost by definition, selfassembling—which generally also implies that there are active control systems to provide self-repair, self-reinforcement, and disassembly when needed. Self-assembly has become an objective of much of materials chemistry for example, in the formation of mesoporous silica and of colloidal crystals with potential uses in photonic tech-... 

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