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Choosing the Crystallization Path Less Traveled
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In this article, the authors use a most unexpected strategy for forming large single crystals such as those that make up mineralized skeletal parts, which allows organisms to mold the crystals into unusual shapes and orient them at will.Abstract:
Many organisms use a most unexpected strategy for forming large single crystals such as those that make up mineralized skeletal parts. Although nucleation and growth of a crystal occur from a solid disordered phase that has the characteristics of a melt phase, the process is accomplished at ambient temperatures and pressures. This strategy allows organisms to mold the crystals into unusual shapes and orient them at will.read more
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Normal Bone Anatomy and Physiology
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Crystallization by particle attachment in synthetic, biogenic, and geologic environments
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Biomimetic Systems for Hydroxyapatite Mineralization Inspired By Bone and Enamel
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TL;DR: This review focuses on the formation of hydroxyapatite in synthetic systems designed primarily in the biomimetic context of bone or enamel mineralization for therapeutic approaches in repair of human tissues.
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Biomimetic Model Systems for Investigating the Amorphous Precursor Pathway and Its Role in Biomineralization
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Taking Advantage of Disorder: Amorphous Calcium Carbonate and Its Roles in Biomineralization
TL;DR: Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) in its pure form is highly unstable, yet some organisms produce stable ACC, and cases are known in which ACC functions as a transient precursor of more stable crystalline aragonite or calcite.
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Sea urchin spine calcite forms via a transient amorphous calcium carbonate phase.
TL;DR: It is shown that sea urchin spine regeneration proceeds via the initial deposition of amorphous calcium carbonate, which may have interesting implications for the development of sophisticated materials.
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Amorphous calcium carbonate transforms into calcite during sea urchin larval spicule growth
TL;DR: It is shown that an additional mineral phase, amorphous calcium carbonate, is present in the sea urchin larval spicule, and that this inherently unstable mineral transforms into calcite with time.
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Mollusc larval shell formation: amorphous calcium carbonate is a precursor phase for aragonite.
TL;DR: It is concluded that ACC fulfills an important function in mollusc larval shell formation and it is conceivable that ACC may also be involved in adult shell formation.
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Stabilization of amorphous calcium carbonate by specialized macromolecules in biological and synthetic precipitates
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