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Apatites: Crystal Size, Morphology, and Growth Mechanism in Bio‐Inspired Apatite Nanocrystals (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2014)
Author(s) -
DelgadoLópez José Manuel,
Frison Ruggero,
Cervellino Antonio,
GómezMorales Jaime,
Guagliardi Antonietta,
Masciocchi Norberto
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201470050
Subject(s) - biomineralization , materials science , nanocrystalline material , apatite , nanocrystal , crystal (programming language) , platy , morphology (biology) , amorphous solid , crystal growth , nanotechnology , crystallography , chemical engineering , chemical physics , composite material , chemistry , geology , computer science , engineering , programming language , paleontology
Nanocrystalline apatite platelets, the mineral component of bone, form from an amorphous precursor through a complex biomineralization process. Here, A. Guagliardi and co‐workers use citrate‐bio‐inspired apatites as a system model and, by cross‐coupling the results on crystal domains provided by X‐ray total scattering modeling with atomic force microscopy observations, they reconstruct the amorphousto‐crystal transformation mechanism and clarify the origin of the platy morphology breaking the hexagonal crystal symmetry.