ChemBioChem 2010, 11, 2368 – 2373

Extracellular Silica Nanocoat Confers Thermotolerance on Individual Cells:
A Case Study of Material-Based Functionalization of Living Cells

Guangchuan Wang,[a] Lijun Wang,*[b] Peng Liu,[a] Yang Yan,[a] Xurong Xu,*[a, c] and Ruikang Tang[a, c]