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Chiral assembly of nanoparticles in functional inorganic materials
Chirality is prevalent in nature, offering unique inspirations for building functional inorganic materials. Within these intricate chiral materials, the assembly of nanoparticles as fundamental building blocks...
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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...
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Open AccessMechanism of promoted dipeptide formation on hydroxyapatite crystal surfaces
The formation of dipeptides from amino acids can be driven by hydroxyapatite at a relatively low temperature in air. For example, the formation of (Ala)2 from Ala is induced on hydroxyapatite at 110°C with consid...