Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite
Minerals are the benchmark of hard and brittle materials. Self-assembled calcitic spicules were recently obtained utilizing a protein from silica biomineralization, silicatein-a. The synthetic spicules show remarkable material properties including extreme flexibility. Breakthroughs in bio-inspired m...
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| description | Minerals are the benchmark of hard and brittle materials. Self-assembled calcitic spicules were recently obtained utilizing a protein from silica biomineralization, silicatein-a. The synthetic spicules show remarkable material properties including extreme flexibility. Breakthroughs in bio-inspired materials science are highlighted. Will it be possible to obtain similar composites with truly artificial organic constituents? Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-525182017-09-13T15:38:23Z Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite Gebauer, Denis Minerals are the benchmark of hard and brittle materials. Self-assembled calcitic spicules were recently obtained utilizing a protein from silica biomineralization, silicatein-a. The synthetic spicules show remarkable material properties including extreme flexibility. Breakthroughs in bio-inspired materials science are highlighted. Will it be possible to obtain similar composites with truly artificial organic constituents? Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52518 10.1002/anie.201303933 Wiley-VCH Verlag restricted |
| spellingShingle | Gebauer, Denis Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| title | Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| title_full | Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| title_fullStr | Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| title_short | Bio-inspired materials science at its best - Flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| title_sort | bio-inspired materials science at its best - flexible mesocrystals of calcite |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52518 |