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SUBMITTER: Silvestri A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584362 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silvestri Alessandro A Pätzold Jürgen J Fratzl Peter P Scheffel André A Faivre Damien D
The journal of physical chemistry letters 20200929 20
Biominerals are composite materials with inorganic and organic components. The latter provide insights into how organisms control mineralization and, if derived from micro/nannofossils, into past climates. Many calcifying organisms cannot be cultured or are extinct; the only materials available for their study are therefore complex environmental samples in which the organism of interest may only be a minor component. There is currently no method for characterizing the biomineral-associated organ ...[more]