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TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 116-127Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.11.003
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- Canadian Space Agency
- Manitoba Institute of Child Health
- Manitoba Medical Service Foundation
- University of Manitoba Research Grant Program
- MITACS
- University of South Australia
- Australian Research Council
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Diatoms are unicellular, eukaryotic, photosynthetic algae that are found in aquatic environments. Diatoms have enormous ecological importance on this planet and display a diversity of patterns and structures at the nano- to millimetre scale. Diatom nanotechnology, a new interdisciplinary area, has spawned collaborations in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, material science and engineering. We survey diatom nanotechnology since 2005, emphasizing recent advances in diatom biomineralization, biophotonics, photoluminescence, microfluidics, compustat domestication, multiscale porosity, silica sequestering of proteins, detection of trace gases, controlled drug delivery and computer design. Diatoms might become the first organisms for which the gap in our knowledge of the relationship between genotype and phenotype is closed.
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