Direct observation of mineral-organic composite formation reveals occlusion mechanism

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Rae Cho, Kang ^a,b   Kim, Yi Yeoun ^c   Yang, Pengcheng ^d   Cai, Wei ^e   Pan, Haihua ^a,f   Kulak, Alexander N ^c   Lau, Jolene L ^a   Kulshreshtha, Prashant ^a   Armes, Steven P ^d   Meldrum, Fiona C ^c   De Yoreo, James J ^a,g  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COPOLYMER; MINERAL; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; MICELLE; POLYMER;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCITE; COMPOSITE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOPARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; SHELL;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MACROMOLECULE; MICELLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; SIMULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION;

ADSORPTION; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMERS;

EID: 84954512495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10187     Document Type: Article

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