Issue 25, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Biomimetic fabrication of pseudohexagonal aragonite tablets through a temperature-varying approach†

Fenglin Liu,a   Yanyan Gao,a   Shiqiang Zhao,a   Qiang Shen,*a   Yunlan Sub  and  Dujin Wangb  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry (Shandong University), Ministry of Education, Jinan 250100, P. R. China
E-mail: qshen@sdu.edu.cn
Fax: +86-531-88564750
Tel: +86-531-88361387

b Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

Abstract

Pseudohexagonal and single-crystal-like aragonite tablets, found in nacre, could be uniformly fabricated through a temperature-varying approach for the first time, indicating the triplet twinning nature and implying a potential significance in biomineralization.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B925593A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Dec 2009
Accepted
24 Mar 2010
First published
16 Apr 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 4607-4609

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Biomimetic fabrication of pseudohexagonal aragonite tablets through a temperature-varying approach

F. Liu, Y. Gao, S. Zhao, Q. Shen, Y. Su and D. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 4607 DOI: 10.1039/B925593A

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