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Fabrication of Silica Ultra High Quality Factor Microresonators
Published on: July 2, 2012
Facile fabrication of uniform hollow silica microspheres using a novel biological template
Alireza Ebrahiminezhad1, Sohrab Najafipour2, Amin Kouhpayeh3
1Department of Biotechnology, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran; Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract:
Biological templates, due to their ease of preparation and surface modifications can be a promising approach to fabricate hollow structures. In this study, for the first time, a biological template was used for the production of hollow silica microspheres. Silica was successfully deposited on Staphylococcus aureus cells surface using the Stöber method. The hollow silica spheres with a mesoporous shell of approximately 700nm in diameter were produced by applying this novel method.
