Advances in Research on Siliceous Sponge Spicules: Novel Insight into the Understanding of Biomineralization Mechanisms and Bionic Applications
详细信息
- 责任者：Wang Xiaohong (State Research Center for Geoanalysis ; Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences ; Beijing 100037 ; China) ; Wang Shunfeng
- 刊名：Acta Geoscientica Sinica
- 出版年：2011
- 卷期：32(2)
- 关键词：海绵针 ; spicules
- 页码：p.129-141
- 图表：12 illus., 52 refs.
- 分类号：1103
- 出版序号：20120382
- issnNo：ISSN1006-3021
- isbnNo：CN11-3474/P
摘要
Siliceous sponges are the simplest and oldest multi-cellular animals on the Earth. They achieved a perfect technical blueprint during their million years of evolution. A new energy-saving and environmentally friendly technology has been developed by nature for human applications allowing the production of novel bio-inorganic mineral materials using nano-biotechnological approaches. In this paper, the authors systematically summarize the research progress in these giant basal spicules on the following topics: structure, composition, mechanical properties, optophysical properties, biochemical properties and molecular biological basis, biomineralization mechanism as well as bionic applications in biomedicine.