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SUBMITTER: Jiang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388139 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature materials 20160627 9
Silicon-based materials have widespread application as biophysical tools and biomedical devices. Here we introduce a biocompatible and degradable mesostructured form of silicon with multi-scale structural and chemical heterogeneities. The material was synthesized using mesoporous silica as a template through a chemical vapour deposition process. It has an amorphous atomic structure, an ordered nanowire-based framework and random submicrometre voids, and shows an average Young's modulus that is 2 ...[more]