Nanoarchitectonics meets cell surface engineering: shape recognition of human cells by halloysite-doped silica cell imprints

• Elvira Rozhina,
• Ilnur Ishmukhametov,
• Svetlana Batasheva,
• Farida Akhatova and
• Rawil Fakhrullin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1818–1825, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.176

• that methodology reported here will find applications in biomedical and clinical research. Keywords: cell surface engineering; cell-recognising imprints; halloysite nanotubes; nanoarchtectonics; Introduction Nanoarchitectonics has recently emerged as a “post-nanotechnology era” paradigm in the