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CHEMICAL RECORD
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 297-307Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/tcr.10071
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silica; monolayers; vesicles; mesoporous materials; self-assembly
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The hybridization of lipid membranes with inorganic silica-based framework results in mechanically stable biomembrane mimics. This account describes three types of silica-based biomimetic membranes. As the first example, a Langmuir monolayer of dialkylalkoxysilane was polymerized and immobilized onto a porous glass plate. Permeability through the monolayer-immobilized glass was regulated by phase transition of the immobilized monolayer. In the second example, spherical vesicles covalently attached to a silica cover layer (Cerasome) were prepared. The Cerasome was stable enough to be assembled into layer-by-layer films without destruction of its vesicular structure. This material could be an example of the multicellular assembly. Mesoporous silica films densely filling peptide assemblies (Proteosilica) are introduced as the third example. The Proteosilica was synthesized as a transparent film through template sol-gel reaction using amphiphilic peptides. (C) 2004 The Japan Chemical Journal Forum and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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