Frontier and prospect of micro/nano biofabrication based on microbes.
- Author:
Zhijun SHI
1
;
Xudian SHI
;
Zhen SUN
;
Guang YANG
Author Information
1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Bacteria;
metabolism;
Biomimetics;
methods;
Biotechnology;
Microfluidic Analytical Techniques;
methods;
Nanotechnology;
Viruses;
metabolism
- From:
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology
2013;29(2):131-140
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
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".
