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Single Crystals with Complex Form via Amorphous Precursors
Author(s) -
Cölfen Helmut
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200800418
Subject(s) - biomineralization , amorphous solid , materials science , spicule , crystallography , process (computing) , nanotechnology , mineralogy , geology , chemistry , computer science , paleontology , sponge spicule , operating system
Nature is able to produce large single crystals with complex shape via amorphous precursor phases in the process of biomineralization (the picture shows an SEM image of a fracture surface of a sea urchin spicule). This strategy can be mimicked for the template synthesis of large single‐crystalline materials with controllable complex shape.