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Novel nanostructured hematite–spongin composite developed using an extreme biomimetic approach

Tomasz Szatkowski, Marcin Wysokowski, Grzegorz Lota, Daria Pęziak, Vasilii V. Bazhenov, Grzegorz Nowaczyk, Juliane Walter, Hartmut Stöcker, Cameliu Himcinschi, Iaroslav Petrenko,

RSC Advances · 2015 · 90 citations · 63 references

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The characteristic mineral-free fibrous skeletons (made of structural protein-spongin) of <italic>H. communis</italic> (Demospongiae: Porifera) was used as a structural template in hydrothermal synthesis of hematite (α-Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) nanoparticles.

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