Morphosynthesis

Morphosynthesis in Polymeric Systems Using Photochemical Reactions... 

Rana RK, Mastai Y, Gedanken A (2002) Acoustic cavitation leading to the morphosynthesis of mesoporous silica vesicles. Adv Mater 14(19) 1414—1418... 

Morphosynthesis of macroporous silica frameworks in bicontinuous microemulsions. Advanced Materials, 10, 151—154. 

Morphosynthesis of calcium carbonate (vaterite) microsponges. Advanced Materials, 11, 324—328. 

Muthusamy, E., Walsh, D. and Mann, S. (2002) Morphosynthesis of organoclay microspheres with spongelike or hollow interiors. Advanced Materials, 14, 969—972. 

Morphosynthesis of complex inorganic forms using pollen grain templates. Chemical Communications, 2784-2785. 

Study of nanoscale biological systems and phenomena, the use of biological components in nanotechnological applications and the synthesis or construction of nanometre scale mimics of biological entities. Examples include the use of DNA for molecular computing, or as a nanoscale structural scaffold, and the temptation of nanostructures using bacterial S-layers (Section 14.6.2). With these ideas in mind we turn first to templated morphosynthesis the chemical synthesis of nanoscale morphologies that often mimic complex structures found in the Natural world. 

Keywords. Self-organization, Nanoparticles, Hollow spheres, Mesoporous materials. Liquid crystals, Morphosynthesis, Kinetic models. Surfactant templating... 

Coordination as the Motif in the Rational Design of Supramolecular Metallacyclic Polygons and Polyhedra this issue will be expanded later in the Chapter. And since most heteromacrocycles have unique shape and form, Ozin s Accounts article entitled Morphogenesis of Biomineral and Morphosynthesis of Biomimetic Forms adds a macroscopic dimension to macrocyclic chemistry <97ACR17>. 

In the following sections, recent advances in the area of bio-inspired mineralization via morphosynthesis of various inorganic minerals by use of biopolymers, various synthetic polymers, and block and graft copolymers will be discussed with a clear focus on recent developments in this rapidly emerging field. Some recent reviews at least partially covering the focus of the present overview exist and shall be mentioned here to allow the reader to find further detail [26,34-36,40,43-45,57,105,113,149-152]. 

Fig. 13 Three-step procedure for the morphosynthesis of nacre-type laminated CaCOs coatings. In the first step, an amorphous highly hydrated CaCOs thin film is deposited on a glass substrate. Upon heating, this precursor film is transformed into a polycrystalline thin film consisting of a mosaic of flat single-crystalline calcite domains. In the last step, highly oriented single and multiple layers of calcite crystals are grown epitaxially on the underlying polycrystalline thin film. Reproduced from [235] with permission of Wiley...

The principle of controlled crystallization and morphosynthesis using a soluble polymer as crystal growth modifier in a solution which does not form an assembly is completely different from the templating effects, such as artificial interfaces and matrices or patterned substrates, which will be discussed in Sect. 5. The structure setup and evolution certainly does not rely on transcription or a straightforward template effect, but relies on a synergistic effect of the mutual interactions between fimctional groups of the polymers and inorganic species, and the subsequent reconstruction by a self-assembly process [4,10,55]. 

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