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Can sustainable, monodisperse, spherical silica be produced from biomolecules? A review
dc.check.date | 2022-05-25 | |
dc.check.info | Access to this article is restricted until 12 months after publication by request of the publisher | en |
dc.contributor.author | Curley, Ricky | |
dc.contributor.author | Holmes, Justin D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Flynn, Eoin J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-10T11:35:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-10T11:35:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05-25 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-01-07T12:43:04Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Spherical silica is a fundamentally important material with uses across a wide and diverse range of areas. However, the synthetic routes to producing spherical silica—typically Stöber processes—are inherently unsustainable and environmentally damaging. Petrochemical surfactants, alcoholic solvents, and ammonium hydroxide, which are commonly used, each have their own associated environmental problems. Demand is growing to find new, more sustainable ways, to synthesise spherical silica. Bioinspired and biomimetic silica, produced using knowledge learned from natural silica production methods such as biomineralisation, is an ever-growing field of research, that provides a possible route to more sustainable industrial silica production. Biomolecules can be used to shape and form spherical silica instead of petrochemical surfactants. Water-based chemistries can be used instead of alcohol solvents and ammonium hydroxide. This review establishes the parallels between the natural silica biomineralisation process and Stöber processes and focuses on the physicochemical properties necessary for biomolecules to synthesise spherical silica. Recent biomolecule-based syntheses are highlighted, and an outlook is given on further developments in the field. | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Curley, R., Holmes, J. D. and Flynn, E. J. (2021) 'Can sustainable, monodisperse, spherical silica be produced from biomolecules? A Review', Applied Nanoscience, 11 (6), pp. 1777-1804. doi: 10.1007/s13204-021-01869-6 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s13204-021-01869-6 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 1804 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2190-5509 | |
dc.identifier.issued | 6 | en |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | Applied Nanoscience | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 1777 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/12375 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 11 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Springer | en |
dc.relation.uri | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13204-021-01869-6 | |
dc.rights | © King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology 2021. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13204-021-01869-6 | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms | en |
dc.subject | Spherical silica | en |
dc.subject | Biopolymers | en |
dc.subject | Biomineralisation | en |
dc.subject | Biomimetic synthesis | en |
dc.title | Can sustainable, monodisperse, spherical silica be produced from biomolecules? A review | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
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