Author:
Usui Kenji,Ozaki Makoto,Hirao Kan,Kosaka Tsubasa,Endo Natsumi,Yoshida Shuhei,Yokota Shin-ichiro,Arimoto Yonejiro,Osawa Ryuji,Nakanishi Nobuhiro,Tomizaki Kin-ya,Umetani Tomohiro,Kayamori Fumihiro
Abstract
AbstractMicrowaves are used for diverse applications such as mobile phones, ovens, and therapy devices. However, there are few reports on the effects of microwaves on diseases other than cancer, and on physiological processes. Here, we focused on CaCO3 mineralization as a model of biomineralization and attempted to elucidate the effect of microwaves on CaCO3 mineralization using peptides. We conducted AFM, ζ potential, HPLC, ICP-AES, and relative permittivity measurements. Our findings show that microwaves alter the nanomorphology of the CaCO3 precipitate, from sphere-like particles to string-like structures. Furthermore, microwaves have little effect on the mineralization when the mineralization ability of a peptide is high, but a large effect when the precipitation ability is low. Our findings may be applicable to not only the treatment of teeth and bones but also the development of organic–inorganic nanobiomaterials. This methodology can be expanded to other molecular/atomic reactions under various microwave conditions to alter reaction activity parameters.
Funder
Konan University Research Institute
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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