An artificial biomineral formed by incorporation of copolymer micelles in calcite crystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 890-896

  Kim, Yi Yeoun ^a   Ganesan, Kathirvel ^a   Yang, Pengcheng ^b   Kulak, Alexander N ^a   Borukhin, Shirly ^c   Pechook, Sasha ^c   Ribeiro, Luis ^d   Kröger, Roland ^e   Eichhorn, Stephen J ^d,f   Armes, Steven P ^b   Pokroy, Boaz ^c   Meldrum, Fiona C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; MICELLES; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BIOMACROMOLECULES; COPOLYMER MICELLES; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER MICELLES; HIERARCHICAL ORDER; MACROSCOPIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; NANO-COMPOSITE STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; MINERAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICELLE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MINERALS; POLYMERS;

EID: 80054906780     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3103     Document Type: Article

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