| Particle accretion mechanism underlies biological crystal growth from an amorphous precursor phase A Gal, K Kahil, N Vidavsky, RT DeVol, PUPA Gilbert, P Fratzl, S Weiner, ... Advanced Functional Materials 24 (34), 5420-5426, 2014 | 156 | 2014 |
| A vacuole-like compartment concentrates a disordered calcium phase in a key coccolithophorid alga S Sviben, A Gal, MA Hood, L Bertinetti, Y Politi, M Bennet, ... Nature communications 7 (1), 11228, 2016 | 149 | 2016 |
| Calcite Crystal Growth by a Solid‐State Transformation of Stabilized Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Nanospheres in a Hydrogel A Gal, W Habraken, D Gur, P Fratzl, S Weiner, L Addadi Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52 (18), 4867-4870, 2013 | 122 | 2013 |
| Certain biominerals in leaves function as light scatterers A Gal, V Brumfeld, S Weiner, L Addadi, D Oron Advanced Materials 24 (10), OP77-OP83, 2012 | 107 | 2012 |
| Macromolecular recognition directs calcium ions to coccolith mineralization sites A Gal, R Wirth, J Kopka, P Fratzl, D Faivre, A Scheffel Science 353 (6299), 590-593, 2016 | 94 | 2016 |
| A perspective on underlying crystal growth mechanisms in biomineralization: solution mediated growth versus nanosphere particle accretion A Gal, S Weiner, L Addadi CrystEngComm 17 (13), 2606-2615, 2015 | 93 | 2015 |
| The stabilizing effect of silicate on biogenic and synthetic amorphous calcium carbonate A Gal, S Weiner, L Addadi Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (38), 13208-13211, 2010 | 93 | 2010 |
| Phosphate–Water Interplay Tunes Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Metastability: Spontaneous Phase Separation and Crystallization vs Stabilization Viewed by Solid State NMR S Kababya, A Gal, K Kahil, S Weiner, L Addadi, A Schmidt Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (2), 990-998, 2015 | 91 | 2015 |
| Oxygen spectroscopy and polarization-dependent imaging contrast (PIC)-mapping of calcium carbonate minerals and biominerals RT DeVol, RA Metzler, L Kabalah-Amitai, B Pokroy, Y Politi, A Gal, ... The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118 (28), 8449-8457, 2014 | 72 | 2014 |
| Plant cystoliths: a complex functional biocomposite of four distinct silica and amorphous calcium carbonate phases A Gal, A Hirsch, S Siegel, C Li, B Aichmayer, Y Politi, P Fratzl, S Weiner, ... Chemistry–A European Journal 18 (33), 10262-10270, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Ion Pathways in Biomineralization: Perspectives on Uptake, Transport, and Deposition of Calcium, Carbonate, and Phosphate K Kahil, S Weiner, L Addadi, A Gal Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (50), 21100-21112, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
| Native-state imaging of calcifying and noncalcifying microalgae reveals similarities in their calcium storage organelles A Gal, A Sorrentino, K Kahil, E Pereiro, D Faivre, A Scheffel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (43), 11000-11005, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| On the phase diagram of calcium carbonate solutions Z Zou, WJEM Habraken, L Bertinetti, Y Politi, A Gal, S Weiner, L Addadi, ... Advanced Materials Interfaces 4 (1), 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Imaging and quantifying homeostatic levels of intracellular silicon in diatoms S Kumar, K Rechav, I Kaplan-Ashiri, A Gal Science advances 6 (42), eaaz7554, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Control of biogenic nanocrystal formation in biomineralization L Addadi, A Gal, D Faivre, A Scheffel, S Weiner Israel Journal of Chemistry 56 (4), 227-241, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| Structural evidence for extracellular silica formation by diatoms B Mayzel, L Aram, N Varsano, SG Wolf, A Gal Nature communications 12 (1), 4639, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Nanocrystallite model for amorphous calcium carbonate P Rez, S Sinha, A Gal Journal of Applied Crystallography 47 (5), 1651-1657, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| Complex morphologies of biogenic crystals emerge from anisotropic growth of symmetry-related facets EM Avrahami, L Houben, L Aram, A Gal Science 376 (6590), 312-316, 2022 | 29 | 2022 |
| Trace‐Element Incorporation into Intracellular Pools Uncovers Calcium‐Pathways in a Coccolithophore A Gal, S Sviben, R Wirth, A Schreiber, B Lassalle‐Kaiser, D Faivre, ... Advanced Science 4 (10), 1700088, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Controlled crystallization of anhydrous guanine β nano-platelets via an amorphous precursor F Chen, B Wu, N Elad, A Gal, Y Liu, Y Ma, L Qi CrystEngComm 21 (23), 3586-3591, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
