Synthesis of biomorphic ZnO derived from silk template
Natural silk fibers were used as the template to synthesis biomorphic ZnO fibers.Silk fibers were first immersed into a Zn(NO3)2 solution and then sintered in air at high temperatures to produce the final ZnO fibers.Their microstructures,phases,and synthesis process were analyzed.The results show that these synthesized fibers retained the morphologies of silk faithfully.The sintering temperatures had the effect on the continuity of the biomorphic fibers.The crystallite sizes of these biomorphic ZnO are in nano scale.The fabrication process of biomorphic ceramic included the formation of ZnO and removal of their silk templates.The ZnO formed before the removal of the silk-template,so that the fibrous morphology of the silk could be retained to this ZnO.The method of using bio-template could provide a new idea for the design of oxide fiber.
Bioinspiration Silk Oxide fiber Synthesis Microstructure
Tianchi Wang Lijing Chang Yang Jia Song Kong Chingping Wong Jianling Gao Jinghai Tao
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332,USA Electrical Power Fittings Quality Testing Center, National Power Corporation, Nanjing 210037,China
国际会议
广州
英文
303-306
2012-11-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）