Huilan Su et al 2008 Smart Mater. Struct. 17 015045 doi:10.1088/0964-1726/17/1/015045
Huilan Su1,3, Jie Han1, Na Wang1, Qun Dong1, Di Zhang1 and Chunfu Zhang2
Show affiliationsAn ambient aqueous soakage technique is successfully developed to prepare PbS nanoclusters on eggshell membrane (ESM) fibers containing some active functional groups (hydroxyl, amine, imine, etc). Based on the biomaterial ESM serving as the reactive substrate and some ESM biomacromolecules acting as the surfactant, PbS nanocrystallites are in situ formed and further assembled into well-distributed nanoparticle aggregations. This moderate bio-inspired strategy would be of great value in preparing novel functional nanomaterials. The as-prepared hybrid PbS/ESM nanocomposites could have great potential for applications in semiconductor industries, optoelectronic fields, and nanostructured devices.
81.16.Fg Supramolecular and biochemical assembly
Issue 1 (February 2008)
Received 4 September 2007, in final form 28 November 2007
Published 17 January 2008
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