Nanoparticles/nanostructures organic

A Ulman. An Introduction to Ultrathin Organic Films From Langmuir-Blodgett to Self-Assembly. Boston, Academic Press, 1991 JH Fendler. Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Films Preparation, Characterization and Application. Weinheim, Germany Wiley VCH, 1998. 

As mentioned earlier, biological systems have developed optimized strategies to design materials with elaborate nanostructures [6]. A straightforward approach to obtaining nanoparticles with controlled size and organization should therefore rely on so-called biomimetic syntheses where one aims to reproduce in vitro the natural processes of biomineralization. In this context, a first possibility is to extract and analyze the biological (macro)-molecules that are involved in these processes and to use them as templates for the formation of the same materials. Such an approach has been widely developed for calcium carbonate biomimetic synthesis [13]. In the case of oxide nanomaterials, the most studied system so far is the silica shell formed by diatoms [14]. 

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