Coupling Microbial Growth with Nanoparticles: A Universal Strategy To Produce Functional Fungal Hyphae Macrospheres

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• 作者：Wen-Kun Zhu ; Huai-Ping Cong ; Qing-Fang Guan ; Wei-Tang Yao ; Hai-Wei Liang ; Wei Wang ; Shu-Hong Yu
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 25, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：20
• 页码：12693-12701
• 全文大小：663K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

Macroscale assembly of nanoscale building blocks is an intriguing way to translate the unique characteristics of individual nanoparticles into macroscopic materials. However, the lack of the efficient universal assembly strategy seriously hinders the possibility of macroscale architectures in practical applications. Herein, we develop a general, environment-friendly, and scalable microbial growth method for the construction of macroscopic composite assemblies with excellent mechanical strength by in situ integrating various types of nanoparticles into fungal hyphae (FH) macrospheres. Notably, the size of the FH-based composite spheres and the loading amount of the nanoparticles with different dimensions can be well tuned by controlling the cultivation time and the dosage of nanoparticles, respectively. Interestingly, bifunctional FH-based core-shell macrospheres can also be achieved by programmed assembling two different kinds of nanoparticles in the cultivation process. The produced multifunctional FH-based composite spheres exhibit wide potential applications in magnetic actuation, photothermal therapy, and contaminant adsorption, etc.