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Bio-Inspired Bottom-Up Assembly of Diatom-Templated Ordered Porous Metal Chalcogenide Meso/Nanostructures

  1. Han Zhou1,
  2. Tongxiang Fan1,
  3. Xufan Li1,
  4. Jian Ding1,
  5. Di Zhang1,
  6. Xuesong Li2,
  7. Yahui Gao2

Article first published online: 2 DEC 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200800764

Issue

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Volume 2009, Issue 2, pages 211–215, January 2009

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How to Cite

Zhou, H., Fan, T., Li, X., Ding, J., Zhang, D., Li, X. and Gao, Y. (2009), Bio-Inspired Bottom-Up Assembly of Diatom-Templated Ordered Porous Metal Chalcogenide Meso/Nanostructures. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2009: 211–215. doi: 10.1002/ejic.200800764

Author Information

  1. 1

    State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China, Fax: +86-21-34202749

  2. 2

    School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Fujian 361005, P. R. China

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 29 DEC 2008
  2. Article first published online: 2 DEC 2008
  3. Manuscript Received: 31 JUL 2008

Funded by

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant Numbers: 50401005, 50671065
  • Program for New Century Excellent Talents in university. Grant Number: NCET-04-0387
  • Major Fundamental Research Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee. Grant Number: 07DJ14001
  • National Basic Research Program of China. Grant Number: 2006CB601200

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Keywords:

  • Chalcogens;
  • Sonochemistry;
  • Mesoporous materials;
  • Nanostructures

Abstract

We put forward a novel and straightforward sonochemical process as a generic bottom-up assembly routeto produce ordered porous metal chalcogenide meso/nanostructures by templating of diatom frustules. We work with one of the most beautiful species of diatoms, Coscinodiscus lineatus, as a representative of diatoms with central symmetry, and with ZnS as the prototype, as it is a high refractive index material and is a typical material widely used in optics and photonics. ZnS replicas have been successfully synthesized from the interaction between the reactive surfaces of the frustules and the precursors under ultrasound. The inorganic replicas copy the morphology of the ordered porous structure and inherit its optical property, such as the existence of the photonic bandgap of the diatom frustules. It is possible to achieve tunable photonic properties in the replicas by assembly of various metal chalcogenide semiconductors of different refractive indexes. This bio-inspired discovery provides insight into the facile synthesis of elaborate meso/nanostructures from these marine microbes.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2009)

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