Calcium carbonate: controlled synthesis, surface functionalization, and nanostructured materials

YQ Niu, JH Liu, C Aymonier, S Fermani… - Chemical society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is an important inorganic mineral in biological and geological
systems. Traditionally, it is widely used in plastics, papermaking, ink, building materials …

Biomineralization: Integrating mechanism and evolutionary history

PUPA Gilbert, KD Bergmann, N Boekelheide… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) biomineralizing organisms have played major roles in the
history of life and the global carbon cycle during the past 541 Ma. Both marine diversification …

Advances in biomineralization-inspired materials for hard tissue repair

S Tang, Z Dong, X Ke, J Luo, J Li - International journal of oral science, 2021 - nature.com
Biomineralization is the process by which organisms form mineralized tissues with
hierarchical structures and excellent properties, including the bones and teeth in …

The hidden structure of human enamel

E Beniash, CA Stifler, CY Sun, GS Jung, Z Qin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Enamel is the hardest and most resilient tissue in the human body. Enamel includes
morphologically aligned, parallel,∼ 50 nm wide, microns-long nanocrystals, bundled either …

Repair of tooth enamel by a biomimetic mineralization frontier ensuring epitaxial growth

C Shao, B **, Z Mu, H Lu, Y Zhao, Z Wu, L Yan… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The regeneration of tooth enamel, the hardest biological tissue, remains a considerable
challenge because its complicated and well-aligned apatite structure has not been …

Matrix-directed mineralization for bulk structural materials

LB Mao, YF Meng, XS Meng, B Yang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mineral-based bulk structural materials (MBSMs) are known for their long history and
extensive range of usage. The inherent brittleness of minerals poses a major problem to the …

Pressure-driven fusion of amorphous particles into integrated monoliths

Z Mu, K Kong, K Jiang, H Dong, X Xu, Z Liu, R Tang - Science, 2021 - science.org
Biological organisms can use amorphous precursors to produce inorganic skeletons with
continuous structures through complete particle fusion. Synthesizing monoliths is much …

Ocean Acidification and Coastal Marine Invertebrates: Tracking CO2 Effects from Seawater to the Cell

F Melzner, FC Mark, BA Seibel… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In the last few decades, numerous studies have investigated the impacts of simulated ocean
acidification on marine species and communities, particularly those inhabiting dynamic …

The crystallization of amorphous calcium carbonate is kinetically governed by ion impurities and water

M Albéric, L Bertinetti, Z Zou, P Fratzl… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many organisms use amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) and control its stability by various
additives and water; however, the underlying mechanisms are yet unclear. Here, the effect of …

Water: How Does It Influence the CaCO3 Formation?

H Du, E Amstad - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nature produces biomineral‐based materials with a fascinating set of properties using only
a limited number of elements. This set of properties is obtained by closely controlling the …