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Introduction

  1. Roco, Mihail C. "Nanotechnology: convergence of modern biology with medicine." Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2003: 337-346.
  2. Kosorukoff, Alex. "Bionics." Wikipedia. 31 Aug. 2004. 30 Nov. 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org.
  3. Center for Biomimetics. 15 Nov. 2004. Universitiy of Reading. 2 Dec. 2005 http://rdg.ac.uk.
  4. Hooper, Rowan. "Ideas Stolen from Right Nature." Wired News 9 Nov. 2004. 2 Dec. 2005 http://www.wired.com.
  5. Quinion, Michael. "Turns of Phrase: Biomimetics." World Wide Words. 22 Nov. 1997. http://www.worldwidewords.org.
  6. Sarikaya, Mehmet. "Moleucular biomimetics: nanotechnology through biology."
    Nature Materials Sept. 2003.

Gecko Tape

  1. Aristotle Historia Animalium Book IX (trans. Thompson,D. A. W.) (Clarendon, Oxford, 1918); http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.html.
  2. Autumn, Kellar, Yichang A. Liang, S. T. Hsieh, Wolfgang Zesch, Wai P. Chan, Thomas W. Kenny, Ronald Fearing, and Robert J. Full. "Adhesive Force of a Single Gecko Foot-Hair." Nature (2000). 28 Nov. 2005 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v405/n6787/full/405681a0_fs.html&content_filetype=pdf.
  3. Grigorieva, I. V., A. K. Geim, S V. Dubonos, K. S. Novoselov, A. A. Zhukov, and S. Y. Shapoval. "Microfabricated Adhesive Mimicking Gecko Foot-Hair." Nature (2003). 28 Nov. 2005 http://onnes.ph.man.ac.uk/nano/Publications/Naturemat_2003.pdf.
  4. Shah, Gaurav. "Modeling of Gecko-Feet Hairs for Artificially Fabricated Dry Adhesives." 23 Feb. 2004. Carnegie Mellon. 6 Dec. 2005 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gshah/Project_modeling.htm.

Bone Tissue Regeneration

  1. Petite, Herve, Veronique Viateau, Wassila Bensaïd, Alain Meunier, Cindy De Pollak, Marianne Bourguignon, Karim Oudina, Laurent Sedel, and Genevieve Guillemin. "Tissue-engineered bone regeneration." Nature Biotechnology 18 (2000): 959-963. 8 Dec. 2005 http://biotech.nature.com.

  2. Guillemin, G, J Fournié, and J L. Patat. "The Use of Coral as a Bone Graph Substitute." Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 21 (1987): 557-567. 8 Dec. 2005 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/109613814/PDFSTART.

  3. Green, D, D Howard, X Yang, M Kelly, and R Oreffo. "Natural Marine Sponge Fiber Skeleton: A Biomimetic Scaffold for Human osteoprogenitor Cell Attachment, Growth, and Differentiation." Tissue Engineering 9 (2003): 1159-1166. 8 Dec. 2005 http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/10763270360728062.

  4. Wilson, Otto. Interview with Anne Cassidy. Inside CUA. 4 Mar. 2005. 8 Dec. 2005 http://inside.cua.edu/050304/story1.cfm.

Photosynthesis

  1. Ratner, Mark, and Daniel Ratner. Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. 122-126.
  2. Vermaas, Wim. "An Introduction to Photosynthesis and Its Applications." The World & I Mar. 1998. 28 Nov. 2005 http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/photointro.html.
  3. Kodis, Gerdenis, Paul A. Liddell, Linda De La Garza, P C. Clausen, Jonathan S. Lindsey, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore, and Devens Gust. "Efficient Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer in an Artificial Photosynthetic Antenna-Reaction Center Complex." The Journal of Physical Chemistry (2002). 28 Nov. 2005 http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/article.cgi/jpcafh/2002/106/i10/pdf/jp012133s.pdf.

Biological Self-Assembly

  1. Zhang, Shuguang. "Fabrication of novel biomaterials through molecular
    self-assembly." Nature biotechnology Oct. 2003.

  2. Roco, Mihail C. "Nanotechnology: convergence of modern biology with medicine." Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2003: 337-346.

  3. Belcher, Angela M. "Coblat Ion Mediated Self-Assembly of Genetically Engineered Bacteriophage for Biomimetic Co-Pt Hybrid Material." Ms. Massachusettes. 2004.

  4. Ratner, Mark, and Daniel Ratner. Nanotechnology: The Next Big Idea. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002. 49-50.

  5. Gyorvary, Erika S. "Biomimetic Nannostructure Fabrication: Nanolithographic
    Lateral Patterning and Self-Assembly of Functional Bacterial S-Layers at
    Silicon Supports." 11 Dec. 2002. Nano Letters. Vol. 3. 2004. 315+.

  6. Sarikaya, Mehmet. "Moleucular biomimetics: nanotechnology through biology."
    Nature Materials Sept. 2003.

  7. François, Jean M., Emmanuelle Trevisol, Veronique Leberre, Christophe Vieu, Liviu Nicu, Christian Bergaud, and Childerik Severak. "Biopatterning." Scientific Activities. Dec. 2003. Genopole Toulouse Midi-pyrénées. 2 Dec. 2005 http://genopole-toulouse.prd.fr.

  8. Delamarche, E. , Microfluidics for Biosensing and Biopatterning

  9. Corey, J M., B C. Wheeler, and G J. Brewer. "Compliance of hippocampal neurons to patterned substrate networks." Journal of Neuroscience Research 30 (1991): 300-307. 

  10. Dictionary.com. 6 Dec. 2005 http://dictionary.com.

Viral Construction

  1. Seeman, Nadrian C., and Angela M. Belcher. "Emulating biology: Building nanostructures from the bottom up." PNAS 99 (2002): 6451-6455.

  2. Manoharan, Hari. Lecture notes.

  3. Lee, Seung-Wuk, Chuanbin Mao, Christine E. Flynn, and Angela M. Belcher. "Ordering of Quantum Dots Using Genetically Engineered Viruses." Science 296 (2002): 892-895.

  4.  Belcher, Angela M. Interview with Richard Anthony. 5 Dec. 2005 http://www.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/fall05/building_on_nature.html.

  5. Nam, Kai T., Beau R. Peelle, Seung-Wuk Lee, and Angela M. Belcher. "Genetically Driven Assembly of Nanorings Based on the M13 Virus." ACS Publications (2003): 23-27. 5 Dec. 2005 http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/nalefd/2004/4/i01/html/nl0347536.html.

  6. Lee, Seung-Wuk, Soo K. Lee, and Angela M. Belcher. "Virus-Based Alignment of Inorganic, Organic, and Biological Nanosized Materials." Advanced Materials 15 (2003): 689-692.

  7. Mao, Chuanbin, Daniel J. Solis, Brian D. Reiss, Stephen T. Kottmann, Rozamond Y. Sweeney, Andrew Hayhurst, George Georgiou, Brent Iverson, and Angela M. Belcher. "Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires." Science 303 (2004): 213-217.

Protein Motors

  1. Montemagno, C. and Bachand, G. “Constructing nanomechanical devices powered by biomolecular motors.” Nanotechnology 10 (1999): 225-231.
  2. Liu, H.Q., Schmidt, J.J., Bachand, G.D., Rizk, S.S., Looger, L.L., Hellinga, H.W., Montemagno, C.D. “Control of a biomolecular motor-powered nanodevice with an engineered chemical switch.” Nature Materials 1 (2002): 173-178.
  3. Mallik, Roop. "Molecular motors - a lesson in nanotechnology from Nature." 2005. School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine. 8 Dec. 2005 http://bioweb.bio.uci.edu/sgross/NaturesNanotech.htm.
  4. Strack, R., Bohm, K.J., Burgold, J., Schach, H.J., and Unger, E. “Physical and technical parameters determining the functioning of a kinesin-based cell-free motor system.” Nanotechnology 11 (2000): 52-56.
  5. Clemmens, J., Hess, H., Doot, R., Matzke, C.M., Bachand, G.D., and Vogel, V. “Motor-protein 'roundabouts': Microtubules moving on kinesin-coated tracks through engineered networks.” Lab on a Chip 4 (2004): 83-86.
  6. Hess, H., Clemmens, J., Qin, D., Howard, J., Vogel, V. “Light-controlled molecular shuttles made from motor proteins carrying cargo on engineered surfaces.” Nano Letters 1 (2001): 235-239.