href="#litres_trial_promo">6.2.2 Bio-calcium carbonate: protection, sensor, buoyancy
6.2.3 Bio-silica: mechanical support, transport and protection
6.2.4 Bio-magnetite: sensing, cutting/grinding, iron storage
6.3 Mineral formation controlling strategies in biomineralisation
6.3.1 The universal biomineralisation process
6.4 Roles and types of organic biological components required for biomineralisation
6.4.1 Roles of organic biological components
6.4.2 Types of organic biological components
6.5 Summary: key lessons from biomineralisation for the green synthesis of nanomaterials
7 Bioinspired ‘green’ synthesis of nanomaterials
7.1 From biological to bioinspired synthesis
7.2.1 Biomineralising biomolecules
7.2.2 Abiotic peptides and proteins from biopanning
7.3 An illustration of exploiting the knowledge of nano–bio interactions
7.4 Additives as the mimics of biomineral forming biomolecules
7.4.1 The need for additives
7.4.2 The design of additives and custom synthesis
7.5 Compartmentalisation, templating and patterning
7.5.1 Confinement in a simple protein template
7.5.2 Confinement in modified cage protein templates
7.5.3 Biomimetic compartmentalisation
7.5.4 Localisation and patterning on surfaces
7.6 Scalability of bioinspired syntheses
7.7 Summary: key lessons about the journey towards bioinspired synthesis
8 Case study 1: magnetite nanoparticles
8.1 Magnetite biomineralisation in magnetotactic bacteria
8.2 Magnetosome use in applications: advantages and drawbacks
Advantages
8.3 Biomolecules and components controlling magnetosome formation
8.3.1 Magnetosome biomineralisation protein discovery
8.3.2 Bio-components for each step of biomineralisation
8.4 Biokleptic use of Mms proteins for magnetite synthesis in vitro
8.5 Understanding Mms proteins in vitro
8.6 Development and design of additives: emergence of bioinspired magnetite nanoparticle synthesis
8.6.1 Development from biomineralisation proteins: MmsF
8.6.2 Screening non-biomineralisation proteins: magnetite interacting proteins
8.7 Summary: key learning, and the future (towards manufacture)
9 Case study 2: silica
9.1 Biosilica occurrence and formation
9.2 Biomolecules controlling biosilica formation
9.3 Learning from biological silica synthesis: in vitro investigation of bioextracts
9.4 Emergence of bioinspired synthesis using synthetic ‘additives’
9.4.1 Which amino acids are important?
9.4.2 Would (homo)polypeptides be sufficient to promote silica formation?
