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SUBMITTER: Li A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6444733 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Aobo A Zhang Wenqiang W Ghaffarivardavagh Reza R Wang Xiaoning X Anderson Stephan W SW Zhang Xin X
Microsystems & nanoengineering 20161205
Diatoms are unicellular, photosynthetic algae that are ubiquitous in aquatic environments. Their unique, three-dimensional (3D) structured silica exoskeletons, also known as frustules, have drawn attention from a variety of research fields due to their extraordinary mechanical properties, enormous surface area, and unique optical properties. Despite their promising use in a range of applications, without methods to uniformly control the frustules' alignment/orientation, their full potential in t ...[more]