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Gyroid Single Crystals: Nanostructured Calcite Single Crystals with Gyroid Morphologies (Adv. Mater. 38–39/2009)
Author(s) -
Finnemore Alexander S.,
Scherer Maik R. J.,
Langford Richard,
Mahajan Sumeet,
Ludwigs Sabine,
Meldrum Fiona C.,
Steiner Ullrich
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200990146
Subject(s) - gyroid , calcite , materials science , nucleation , morphology (biology) , crystallography , single crystal , nanotechnology , polymer , copolymer , mineralogy , composite material , chemistry , geology , paleontology , organic chemistry
Single crystals typically assume a crystallographically distinct shape. Many biological organisms, however, synthesize single crystals with an intricate mescoscopic morphology that does not reflect the crystal symmetry. The cover shows a calcite single crystal with a bicontinuous gyroid morphology, which was obtained by calcite nucleation in a self‐assembled polymer matrix in work reported by Ulli Steiner and co‐workers on p. 3928 . The characteristic size of the biomimetic structure is ∼30 nm. The pattern in the title is the characteristic 211 plane of the gyroid morphology.