TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baumgartner, Jens
A1  - Lesevic, Paul
A1  - Kumari, Monika
A1  - Halbmair, Karin
A1  - Bennet, Mathieu
A1  - Koernig, Andre
A1  - Widdrat, Marc
A1  - Andert, Janet
A1  - Wollgarten, Markus
A1  - Bertinetti, Luca
A1  - Strauch, Peter
A1  - Hirt, Ann
A1  - Faivre, Damien
T1  - From magnetotactic bacteria to hollow spirilla-shaped silica containing a magnetic chain
JF  - RSC Advances
N2  - Magnetotactic bacteria produce chains of magnetite nanoparticles, which are called magnetosomes and are used for navigational purposes. We use these cells as a biological template to prepare a hollow hybrid material based on silica and magnetite, and show that the synthetic route is nondestructive as the material conserves the cell morphology as well as the alignment of the magnetic particles. The hybrid material can be resuspended in aqueous solution, and can be shown to orient itself in an external magnetic field. We anticipate that chemical modification of the silica can be used to functionalize the material surface in order to obtain multifunctional materials with specialized applications, e.g. targeted drug delivery.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ra20911j
SN  - 2046-2069
VL  - 2
IS  - 21
SP  - 8007
EP  - 8009
PB  - Royal Society of Chemistry
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -