Journal article
Bromoisobutyramide as an intermolecular surface binder for the preparation of free-standing biopolymer assemblies
D Mertz, P Tan, Y Wang, TK Goh, A Blencowe, F Caruso
Advanced Materials | Published : 2011
Abstract
Bromoisobutyramide (BrIBAM)-modified silica templates facilitate the formation of bio-functional thin films made of a range of biopolymers (e.g., polypeptides, nucleic acids or polysaccharides). Upon template removal, non-covalent free-standing biopolymeric assemblies (e.g., hollow capsules or replicated spheres and fibers) are formed without the need for covalent cross-linking. Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council under the Discovery (F.C.) and Federation Fellowship (F.C.) schemes. We thank B. Stadler, A. N. Zelikin and P. Lavalle for fruitful discussions. L. Lee and C. R. Kinnane are acknowledged for technical assistance with flow cytometry and with electron microscopy. S. Best, G. Devlin and J. Aitken are acknowledged for helpful discussion and preliminary experiments performed at the Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne.