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SUBMITTER: Lee K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3316890 | biostudies-other | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20120306
Biological materials are often based on simple constituents and grown by the principle of self-assembly under ambient conditions. In particular, biomineralization approaches exploit efficient pathways of inorganic material synthesis. There is still a large gap between the complexity of natural systems and the practical utilization of bioinspired formation mechanisms. Here we describe a simple self-assembly route leading to a CaCO(3) microlens array, somewhat reminiscent of the brittlestars' micr ...[more]