Self-assembly of amorphous calcium carbonate microlens arrays

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lee, Kyubock ^a,c   Wagermaier, Wolfgang ^a   Masic, Admir ^a   Kommareddy, Krishna P ^a   Bennet, Mathieu ^a   Manjubala, Inderchand ^a,e   Lee, Seung Woo ^b   Park, Seung B ^c   Cölfen, Helmut ^d   Fratzl, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^e VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRYSTALLIN; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER; ACTIN; BIOMATERIAL; CALCIUM; MINERAL;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMINERALIZATION; EQUIPMENT; LENS; MICROLENS ARRAY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANOARRAY; PRECIPITATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

OPHIUROIDEA;

ACTINS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CELLS, CULTURED; LENSES; MINERALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84859197341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1720     Document Type: Article

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