Les Materiaux Bionanocomposites

"Bionanocomposites represent an emerging group of nanostructured hybrid materials. They are formed by the combination of natural polymers and inorganic solids and show at least one dimension on the nanometre scale. Similar to conventional nanocomposites, which involve synthetic polymers, these biohybrid materials also exhibit improved structural and functional properties of great interest for different applications. The properties inherent to the biopolymers that is, biocompatibility and biodegradability, open new prospects for these hybrid materials with special incidence in regenerative medicine and in environmentally friendly materials (green nanocomposites). Research on Bionanocomposites can be regarded as a new interdisciplinary field closely related to significant topics such as biomineralization processes, bioinspired materials, and biomimetic systems. The upcoming development of novel Bionanocomposites introducing multifunctionality represents a promising research topic that takes advantage of the synergistic assembling of biopolymers with inorganic nanometre-sized solids."

M. Darder, P. Aranda and E. Ruiz-Hitzky

Références :

Bionanocomposites: A New Concept of Ecological, Bioinspired, and Functional Hybrid Materials
Advanced Materials
Volume 19, Issue 10, Date: May, 2007, Pages: 1309-1319
M. Darder, P. Aranda, E. Ruiz-Hitzky

Titania−Sepiolite Nanocomposites Prepared by a Surfactant Templating Colloidal Route
Pilar Aranda, Robert Kun, M. Angeles Martín-Luengo, Sadok Letaïef, Imre Dékány, and Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky
Chem. Mater.; 2008; 20(1) pp 84 - 91; (Article) DOI: 10.1021/cm702251f