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Synthesis of bespoke Green Nanomaterials
It appears that biology has identified ‘clever’ green routes to produce more than 60 distinct nanomaterials and an understanding of the secrets of biological nanomaterials formation is leading to green materials with novel applications.
Harnessing biological production of sophisticated nanomaterials has exciting prospects and it encompasses most of the twelve principles of green chemistry.
Research in our group involves:
Relevant Publications
It appears that biology has identified ‘clever’ green routes to produce more than 60 distinct nanomaterials and an understanding of the secrets of biological nanomaterials formation is leading to green materials with novel applications.
Harnessing biological production of sophisticated nanomaterials has exciting prospects and it encompasses most of the twelve principles of green chemistry.
Research in our group involves:
- Systematic investigation of the chemistry of synthesis,
- Extensive materials characterisation using spectroscopy, microscopy, etc.
- Statistical methods, design of experiments and factorial design,
- Understanding synthesis-structure-property relationships.
Relevant Publications
- S. V. Patwardhan, BIO-INSPIRED “GREEN” SYNTHESIS OF NANOMATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS (not peer-reviewed), Materials Matters, 9(2), 52, 2014.
- S. V. Patwardhan, Understanding biomineral growth and assembly for engineering novel green nanomaterials In: Bio-inspired Nanotechnology: From Surface Analysis to Applications Forms, Eds. T. Walsh and M. Knetch, Springer, 2014.
- Emami, et al., Prediction of Specific Biomolecule Adsorption on Silica Surfaces as a Function of pH and Particle Size, Chemistry of Materials, 26(19), 5725-34, 2014.
- Emami, F., Puddu, V., Berry, R., Varshney, V., Patwardhan, S., Perry, C., Heinz, H., A Force Field and a Surface Model Database for Silica to Simulate Interfacial Properties in Atomic Resolution, Chemistry of Materials, 26(8), 2647–2658, 2014.
- Kubiak - Ossowska, K., Burley, G. A., Patwardhan, S. V., and Mulheran, P. A., Spontaneous Membrane-Translocating Peptide Adsorption at Silica Surfaces: A Molecular Dynamics Study, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2013, 117, 14666–14675.
- Patwardhan, S. V. Biomimetic and bioinspired silica: recent developments and applications. Chem. Commun., 7567 (2011). [Link]
