Essay topic:Frontier and prospect of micro/nano biofabrication based on microbes
Ambit:Academic review
Author:石志军,史续典,孙臻,杨光*
Key words:微生物,生物制造,微纳米,有序组装,表面修饰,图案化排列
Source: journal
Specific source :生物工程学报,2013年4月,2期,001-003页
Published:2013.02
Abstract:
Microbe is extremely abundant in nature, and its size has a very wide coverage from nano- to micro-scale making it suitable to be processed at multi-scale level as natural "building blocks" and "chassis cells". Biofabrication based on microbes is an artificial manipulation on microbes to assemble functional materials and devices by using the specific structures and various biological functions of microbes. In the meantime, the novel strategies of biofarication enables us to study the behavioral details of microbes, which will provide new platforms for uncovering the unsolved basic scientific problems of microbes. In this paper, we reviewed the frontier and progress in biofabrication from nano- and micro-scale in microbes that were manipulated as structured "building blocks" or functional "micro/nano robots".