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PUBLISHED ONLINE: 4 SEPTEMBER 2011 | DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3103
An artificial biomineral formed by incorporation of
copolymer micelles in calcite crystals
Yi-Yeoun Kim1
, Kathirvel Ganesan1
, Pengcheng Yang2
, Alexander N. Kulak1
, Shirly Borukhin3
,
Sasha Pechook3
, Luis Ribeiro4
, Roland Kröger5
, Stephen J. Eichhorn4
, Steven P. Armes2
,
Boaz Pokroy3
and Fiona C. Meldrum1
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Biominerals exhibit morphologies, hierarchical ordering and properties that invariably surpass those of their synthetic

Source: Adler, Joan - Physics Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

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