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SUBMITTER: Seknazi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6783414 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seknazi Eva E Kozachkevich Stas S Polishchuk Iryna I Bianco Stein Nuphar N Villanova Julie J Suuronen Jussi-Petteri JP Dejoie Catherine C Zaslansky Paul P Katsman Alex A Pokroy Boaz B
Nature communications 20191008 1
As organisms can form crystals only under ambient conditions, they demonstrate fascinating strategies to overcome this limitation. Recently, we reported a previously unknown biostrategy for toughening brittle calcite crystals, using coherently incorporated Mg-rich nanoprecipitates arranged in a layered manner in the lenses of a brittle star, Ophiocoma wendtii. Here we propose the mechanisms of formation of this functional hierarchical structure under conditions of ambient temperature and limited ...[more]