The unique and frequently beautiful morphologies that characterize many biominerals have
long been a source of fascination. While research began by looking first at individual …

The often astonishing material properties of crystalline biominerals are generally related to
the hierarchical assembly of specifically interacting organic and inorganic components. To …

Predicting the conditions in which a compound adopts a metastable structure when it
crystallizes out of solution is an unsolved and fundamental problem in materials synthesis …

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

Many sea urchins obtain their food by scraping rocky surfaces. They do this using teeth
composed almost entirely of magnesium-bearing calcite. Paradoxically, the substrates …

This paper describes the control of the nucleation and growth of calcite crystals by a matrix
composed of an agarose hydrogel on top of a carboxylate-terminated self-assembled …

Magnesium-bearing calcium carbonate films have been synthesized via a polymer-induced
liquid-precursor (PILP) mineralization process. A variety of morphological features of …

This research investigates the influence of water composition, the presence of seasonal
algal mats, detrital inputs and the activity of microorganisms on the crystallization of …

Biomineralisation processes invariably occur in the presence of multiple organic additives,
which act in combination to give exceptional control over structures and properties …

Formation of biomineral structures is increasingly attributed to directed growth of a mineral
phase from an amorphous precursor on an organic matrix. While many in vitro studies have …