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Dimitra Athanasiadou
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DNA nanostructures as templates for biomineralization
Nature uses extracellular matrix scaffolds to organize biominerals into hierarchical structures over various length scales. This has inspired the design of biomimetic mineralization scaffolds, with DNA nanostr...
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Open AccessHomochirality in biomineral suprastructures induced by assembly of single-enantiomer amino acids from a nonracemic mixture
Since Pasteur first successfully separated right-handed and left-handed tartrate crystals in 1848, the understanding of how homochirality is achieved from enantiomeric mixtures has long been incomplete. Here, ...
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Open AccessChiral acidic amino acids induce chiral hierarchical structure in calcium carbonate
Chirality is ubiquitous in biology, including in biomineralization, where it is found in many hardened structures of invertebrate marine and terrestrial organisms (for example, spiralling gastropod shells). He...
