Stabilization of amorphous calcium carbonate by specialized macromolecules in biological and synthetic precipitates

Advanced Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 222-226

  Aizenberg, Joanna ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIREFRINGENCE; CALCITE; CARBONATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIOLOGICAL PRECIPITATES; CALCAREOUS SPONGES; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DIFFERENTIAL DISSOLUTION; GLYCOPROTEINS; SPICULES; SYNTHETIC PRECIPITATES;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0030109738     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.19960080307     Document Type: Article

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