Surface , inorganic nanostructures

Inorganic Nanostructures on Surfaces Using Micellar Diblock Copolymer Templates... 

The utilization of large surface areas and, to a certain extent, controllable surface properties make carbon materials an ideal support for finely dispersed catalyst nanoparticles, as discussed in Section 15.2. The special features of nanocarbons for this purpose will be highlighted in the following section. Starting with the controlled synthesis of a variety of nanocarbon-inorganic hybrids, some examples will be discussed, where the superior catalytic performance arises from the unique properties of the nanostructured support. 

The nanostructured surfaces resemble, at least to a certain degree, the architecture of physiological adhesion substrates, such as extracellular matrix, which is composed from nanoscale proteins, and in the case of bone, also hydroxyapatite and other inorganic nanocrystals [16,17,24-27]. From this point of view, carbon nanoparticles, such as fullerenes, nanotubes and nanodiamonds, may serve as important novel building blocks for creating artificial bioinspired nanostructured surfaces for bone tissue engineering. 

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