1 Functional Materials Templated from Natural Plants
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Morphogenetic Materials from Natural Plants
1.2.1 Synthesis of (Fe203), Nickel Oxide (NiO) and Zinc Oxide (ZnO)from Natural Plants
1.2.2 Biomorphic A1203 and SnO2 by Using Cotton asBioTemplates
1.2.3 Biomorphic Synthesis of Metal Oxide Doped with Metal(N-TiO2,Ag-A1203)
1.2.4 Biotemplate Fabrication of SnO2 and TiO2 Materials by aSonochemical Method
1.2.5 Biomorphic Functional Metal Oxides from Plant Leaves
1.3 Applications of the Synthesized Biomorphic Materials
1.3.1 Adsorbents for Copper Ions Removal with SurfaceFunctionalized Soybean Straw
1.3.2 Polymer Functionalized Activated Carbon (from Rice Husk) forCu2+ Removal
1.3.3 Magnetic Nanoparticles Functionalized Activated Carbon forDye Removal
1.3.4 TiO2 with Hierarchical Structures Fabricated from Wood forPhotocatalyst
1.3.5 Gas Sensing Properties of Wood-Templated Oxides
1.4 Summary
References
2 Morph-Genetie Materials Inspired from Butterfly Wing Scales
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Synthesis Approaches of Butterfly Wings Replicas
2.2.1 Chemical Solutions Soaking Method
2.2.2 Sonochemical Processing Method
2.2.3 Solvothermal Nano-Complex Processing Method
2.2.4 Summary
2.3 Optical Properties of Butterfly Wings, Hybrids orReplicas
2.3.1 Fabrication of Iridescent Zinc Oxide Replicas fromTransparent Butterfly Wings Templates
2.3.2 Fabrication of Large-Area Iridescent Inorganic Replicas
2.3.3 Fabrication of Nanocomposite with Novel Optical Effect
2.4 Gas Sensor Properties of Butterfly Wings, Hybrids orReplicas
2.4.1 Characterization of the Porous Hierarchical Gas-SensorMicrostructures Template from Butterfly Wings
2.4.2 Research on the Gas-Sensor Properties of the SnO2 Replicas ofButterfly Wings
2.5 High Light Harvest Efficiency Photoanode Used in SolarCells
2.6 Conclusion
References
3 Morph-Genetic Materials Inspired Diverse HierarchicalBio-Architectures
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Functional Metal Oxides Nano-Architectures with EggshellMembrane Hierarchy
3.2.1 Biotemplating Sol-Gel Techniques for Hierarchical MetalOxides
3.2.2 Hierarchical Nanostructured SnO2 as Gas Sensors
3.2.3 Pd-PdO Nanoclusters Reinforced Hierarchical TiO2 Films withExcellent Photocatalysis
3.3 Morph-Genetic Materials with Diatom as the Templates
3.4 Morph-Genetic Materials with Bacteria as the Templates
3.5 Hybrid Nanocomposites Derived from Reactive NaturalScaffolds
3.5.1 Natural Biofibers Based Hybrid Nanocomposites
3.5.2 Hierarchical Morph-Genetic Nanocomposites
3.5.3 Iridescent Nanocomposites: Novel Photonic Crystals
References
4 Morph-Genetic Composites
4.1 Morph-Genetic Composites Based on Plant Materials
4.1.1 Synthesis of Morph-Genetic Composites from NaturalPlants
4.1.2 Properties of the Synthesized Biomorphic Materials
4.1.3 Summary
4.2 Functional Nanostructures/Bioscaffolds Nanocomposies
4.2.1 Natural Biofibers Based Optical Nanocomposites
4.2.2 Hybrid Nanocomposites with Natural Photonic Crystals as theMatrices
References
Index