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Biomimetic Synthesis of Biomineral and Nanomaterials 20 06 18, Stars 20 06 ACS 41 42 Advances in Biomimetics 20 08 130 20 08 1 20 08 ACS 20 08 springer 43 Biomineralization and Biomimetic Synthesis of Biomineral and Nanomaterials (b) (a) (c) (e) (d) (f) 20 05 17 20 06 20 06 45 20 10 ACS VCH 5 Conclusion 6 Acknowledgments 7 References Science 44 Advances in Biomimetics Chem Phys Lett Struct Bonding, Biomaterials Cells... and defines the end product in biomineralization (DiMasi, et al., 20 03) One of the most challenging scientific problems is to gain greater insight into the molecular interactions occurring at the interface between the inorganic mineral and the macromolecular organic matrix Many studies have been devoted to the putative mechanisms underlying the formation of highly organized mineral structures in molluscs... diffusion 2 Biomineralization and biomimetic mineralization of calcium carbonate under a protein Langmuir monolayer 2. 1 Biomineralization and biominerals Biomineralization is the process by which living organisms secrete inorganic minerals in an organized fashion with exceptional physical properties, by virtue of finely controlled microstructure, morphology, and hierarchical organization of the minerals... stitch together 56 Advances in Biomimetics complicated structures from a simple cloth through biomineralization process (Cusack & Freer, 20 08) Just as mentioned above, the success of diatoms in processing silica results from specific interactions at the organic-inorganic interface, between highly modified peptides called silaffins and silica (Kröger, et al., 20 02) It is the variety of biomineral ultrastructures... superior to those found in their natural counterparts (Sommerdijk & With, 20 08) It is 52 Advances in Biomimetics evident that the understanding and ultimately the mimicking of the processes involved in biomineralization has been a motivation for humans to copy Nature and to adapt ideas from Nature to achieve functional, aesthetic, and societal value (Mann, 20 00; Xu, et al., 20 07), and it still has... features of the biominerals in a real biomineralization, the kinetic control of inorganic crystals growth has not gotten enough attention 60 Advances in Biomimetics Fig 5 Calcite of coccosphere (a) (from (Davis, 20 04) with permission), shell (b), schematic circle diagram of carbon dioxide in nature (c) In fact, the growth of natural inorganic biominerals is also regulated by the kinetic control except... of biomineralization and get man-made materials with structural and functional features closer to the biominerals 2. 2 Biomimetic mineralization of calcium carbonate under a bovine serum albumin (BSA) Langmuir monolayer The basic building blocks available to evolution when deciding skeletal structure are just Ca2+ and HCO3- or HPO 42- , this dichotomy is resolved when vertebrates evolve utilizing phosphate... utilizing phosphate and (most) invertebrates evolve utilizing carbonate (Cusack & Freer, 20 08) However, Nature has created a staggering diversity of perfect structures in the carbonate zone and continuing evolutionary masterpieces in the vertebrates using so limited fundamental building blocks The secret to this diversity is the inclusion of organic materials, such as protein, carbohydrate and lipid as...36 Advances in Biomimetics 466 nm 4 9 0 nm 471 nm 480 nm (b) 609 nm Intensity / a.u Intensity/a.u (a) 450 460 470 480 490 580 500 Wavelength/nm 590 600 610 620 Wavelength/nm 630 663 nm Intensity/a.u (c) 640 650 660 670 680 Wavelength/nm λ λ 20 09 Elsevier λ 20 09 44 640 Biomineralization and Biomimetic Synthesis of Biomineral and Nanomaterials 4 Morphology, structure, and function biomineral synthesis . 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