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Volume 4
Nano Research & Applications
ISSN: 2471-9838
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Nano Res Appl 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9838-C3-015
Bioinspired materials templates by nature species
Di Zhang, Jiajun Gu, Wang Zhang, Qinglei Liu, Shenming Zhu
and
Huilan Su
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
A
fter millions of years’ evolution, natural species have developed an astonishing variety of sophisticated nanostructures
that are difficult to fabricate even with the most technologically advanced synthetic methodologies. Inspired from natural
materials with hierarchical structures, many functional materials are developed using various templating methods. This review
will introduce how to fabricate novel functional materials based on natural bio-structures with a great diversity of morphologies,
in State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the latest five years. We will focus on replicating
the natural component with functional inorganic materials while maintaining the morphologies of the biological species (e.g.
wood, agriculture castoff, butterfly wings). Properties of the as-required materials will be systematically studied. Based on
these results, we will discuss the potential applications of these materials in manipulation of light propagation, solar cells,
electromagnetic shielding, energy conversion, and gas sensors, et al. In addition, the fabrication methods could also be applied
to many other natural templates that could eventually lead to the production of optical, magnetic, and electric devices as
building blocks for nano-electronic, magnetic, or photonic integrated systems. These bioinspired functional materials with
improved performances are becoming increasing important, which will be extremely valuable in developing functional
materials with novel nano-morphologies in the near future.
zhangdi@sjtu.edu.cn