Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is an important inorganic mineral in biological and geological
systems. Traditionally, it is widely used in plastics, papermaking, ink, building materials …

The stabilization of soil organic matter is crucial for global carbon cycling processes as soil
stores large amounts of organic carbon. The occlusion of SOM within minerals sequesters …

Biomineralization is a normal physiological process that includes nucleation, crystal growth,
phase transformation, and orientation evolution. Notably, artificially induced …

Insight into the hierarchical structures of carbohydrate nanofibrils such as chitin and
cellulose is important in order to exploit their unique geometrical features for materials …

Calcium carbonate biomineralization is remarkable for the ability of organisms to produce
calcite or aragonite with perfect fidelity, where this is commonly attributed to specific anionic …

Uncontrolled hemorrhage remains a leading cause of mortality after trauma. This work
describes a facile mineralization strategy for enhancing hemostatic efficacy of alginate non …

Protein scaffolds direct the organization of amorphous precursors that transform into
mineralized tissues, but the templating mechanism remains elusive. Motivated by models for …

Plastic pollution in water ecosystems is threatening the survival of wildlife. In particular,
microplastics may be encapsulated into calcium carbonate, a crucial building block of hard …

It is highly desirable but technically challenging to precisely control the spatial composition
and internal structure of crystalline nanocomposite materials, especially in a one-pot …

While seasonality in speleothem trace element signatures is well-documented, the
parameters that control the emergence of laminations vary between elements and tend to be …