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The dynamics of nacre self-assembly

Published:2006-12-08 Issue:14 Volume:4 Page:491-504
ISSN:1742-5689
Container-title:Journal of The Royal Society Interface
language:en
Short-container-title:J. R. Soc. Interface.

Author:

Cartwright Julyan H.E¹,Checa Antonio G²

Affiliation:

1. Laboratorio de Estudios CristalográficosCSIC, P.T. Ciencias de la Salud, 18100 Armilla, Granada, Spain

2. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada18071 Granada, Spain

Abstract

We show how nacre and pearl construction in bivalve and gastropod molluscs can be understood in terms of successive processes of controlled self-assembly from the molecular- to the macro-scale. This dynamics involves the physics of the formation of both solid and liquid crystals and of membranes and fluids to produce a nanostructured hierarchically constructed biological composite of polysaccharides, proteins and mineral, whose mechanical properties far surpass those of its component parts.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

Biomedical Engineering,Biochemistry,Biomaterials,Bioengineering,Biophysics,Biotechnology

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsif.2006.0188

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