Study of the crystallographic architecture of corals at the nanoscale by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and transmission electron microscopy

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1268-1275

  Benzerara, Karim ^a   Menguy, Nicolas ^a   Obst, Martin ^b,h   Stolarski, Jaroslaw ^c   Mazur, Maciej ^d   Tylisczak, Tolek ^e   Brown Jr , Gordon E ^f,g   Meibom, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Linear dichroism; Mesocrystal; STXM; TEM; XANES spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALS; CORAL SKELETON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; LINEAR DICHROISM; MESOCRYSTAL; MESOSCALE; NANO SCALE; NANO-TEXTURE; NANOGLOBULES; ORIENTATION MAPS; PORITES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-CRYSTAL FIBERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STXM; ULTRA-THIN;

BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CARBONATE MINERALS; DICHROISM; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; POLARIZATION; SYNCHROTRONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY MICROSCOPES;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ARTICLE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR DICHROISM; MESOCRYSTAL; NANOIMAGING; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MINERALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; X-RAYS;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 80051827921     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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