Abstract
Nature provides a variety of plants with hierarchical structures for both fundamental and practical interests. Textural mesopores and intrinsic interconnected pore systems in hierarchical materials are able to transport guest species to framework binding sites efficiently. Typically, well-defined architecture porogens, such as emulsion colloidal crystals, virus liquid crystals, bacterial superstructures, polymer sponges, and wood cellular structures, have been used as templates to prepare functional materials. Similar to the wood tissues, agricultural waste materials, particularly those containing cellulose, show potential metal bio-sorption capacity. This kind of natural combination of multi-level, multidimensional, multi-component and multi-function agrees with the requirements for new material design, and provides new ideas for structural design and functional assembly of advanced materials.
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Zhang, D., Fan, T., Zhu, S., Zhou, H. (2012). Functional Materials Templated from Natural Plants. In: Morphology Genetic Materials Templated from Nature Species. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24685-2_1
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