Biomineralization from Nature to Applications

Biomineralization is the process by which living forms influence the precipitation of mineral materials. It provides organisms with skeletons and shells while they are alive and when they die they are deposited as sediment in environment from river, plants to the deep ocean floor. Biomineralization process is controlled by various factors like temperature, Organic matrix, additives, pH etc. Variety of applications of Biomineralization based technology in the construction has been reported. The Biomineralization is a multidisciplinary research area which briefly documents the future directions of the technology toward commercial scale applications.