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Biomimetics: Learning from diamonds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Andrei P. Sommer,
Dan Zhu,
Ralf-Peter Franke and
Hans-Joerg Fecht
Andrei P. Sommer*
Affiliation:
Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Dan Zhu
Affiliation:
Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Ralf-Peter Franke
Affiliation:
Central Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Hans-Joerg Fecht
Affiliation:
Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany; and Institute for Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: andrei.sommer@uni-ulm.de
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Abstract

There is increasing observational evidence for an implication of the order of interfacial water layers in biology, for instance in processes of cellular recognition and during first contact events, where cells decide to survive or enter apoptosis. Experimental methods that allow access to the order of interfacial water layers are thus crucial in biomedical engineering. In this study, we show that interfacial water structures can be nondestructively analyzed on the nanocrystalline diamond. Results open the gate to a new chapter in the design of biomaterials inspired by biomimetic principles.

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BiomedicalDiamondWater

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 23 , Issue 12: Biomimetic and Bio-enabled Materials Science and Engineering , December 2008, pp. 3148 - 3152
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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