Material platforms based on interaction between organic and inorganic phases offer
enormous potential to develop materials that can recreate the structural and functional …

Biomineralization is an attractive pathway to produce mineral-based biomaterials with high
performance and hierarchical structures. To date, the biomineralization process and …

A major goal in materials science is to develop bioinspired functional materials based on the
precise control of molecular building blocks across length scales. Here we report a protein …

Biomimetic mineralization is a powerful approach for the synthesis of advanced materials
with complex shape, hierarchical organization and controlled size, shape and polymorph …

The organization of nanostructures across several length scales by self-assembly is a key
challenge in the design of advanced materials. In meeting this challenge, materials …

Biomineralization is the process by which living organisms fabricate biominerals by
regulating their nucleation, growth and assembly. This process inspires many biomimetic …

The wondrous and imaginative designs of nature have always been an inexhaustible
treasure trove for material scientists. Throughout the long evolutionary process, biominerals …

Nature produces a wide variety of exquisite mineralized tissues fulfilling diverse functions,
often from simple inorganic salts. Organisms exercise a level of molecular control over the …

Understanding and mimicking the hierarchical structure of mineralized tissue is a challenge
in the field of biomineralization and is important for the development of scaffolds to guide …

The biogenic calcium phosphate (CaP) crystallization is a process that offers elegant
materials design strategies to achieve bioactive and biomechanical challenges. Indeed …