Nacre has long served as a model for understanding the biomineralization mechanism and
designing bio-inspired materials. However, its basic building blocks, the aragonite tablets …

We demonstrate direct evidence that a single-crystal-like aragonite platelet is essentially
assembled with aragonite nanoparticles. The aragonite nanoparticles are readily oriented …

Understanding nacre's bottom-up biomineralization mechanism, particularly, how individual
aragonite platelets are formed, has long remained elusive due to its crystallographic …

Currently a basic tenet in biomineralization is that biominerals grow by accretion of
amorphous particles, which are later transformed into the corresponding mineral phase. The …

The structure and formation mechanism of nacre are hot research topics in
biomineralization. However, there is no specific conclusion about them. Especially for …

Nacre has long served as a classic model in biomineralization and the synthesis of
biomimetic materials. However, the morphology and arrangement of its basic building …

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the iridescent inner layer of many mollusk shells, is a biomineral
lamellar composite of aragonite (CaCO3) and organic sheets. Biomineralization frequently …

Different non-classical crystallization mechanisms have been invoked to explain structural
and compositional properties of biocrystals. The identification of precursor amorphous …

Red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) nacre is a layered composite biomineral that contains
crystalline aragonite tablets confined by organic layers. Nacre is intensely studied because …

The vast majority of calcium carbonate biocrystals differ from inorganic crystals in that they
display a patent nanoroughness consisting of lumps of crystalline material …