Crystal Growth & Design
Crystal Growth & Design
5 years ago

Morphogenesis of Biomineralized Calcitic Prismatic Tissue in Mollusca Fully Described by Classical Hierarchical Grain Boundary Motion

Morphogenesis of Biomineralized Calcitic Prismatic Tissue in Mollusca Fully Described by Classical Hierarchical Grain Boundary Motion
Igor Zlotnikov, Dana Zöllner, Elke Reich
We provide an analytical framework, borrowed from classical crystal growth and coarsening, to fully describe the morphogenesis of a hierarchical biomineralized architecture formed by a living organism. The capacity to quantitatively model the structural evolution of a complex biocomposite tissue, in time and in space, opens a new fundamental research niche in fields of biomineralization, biophysics, and physics of materials.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00965

DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00965

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