Biomineralization articles within Nature

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• Article | 15 January 2020

  Antagonistic cooperativity between crystal growth modifiers

  Inhibitor pairs that suppress the crystallization of haematin, which is a part of malaria parasites’ physiology, show unexpected antagonism due to attenuation of step pinning by kink blockers.

  • Wenchuan Ma
  • , James F. Lutsko
  •  & Peter G. Vekilov

• Letter | 08 August 2016

  Molecular modifiers reveal a mechanism of pathological crystal growth inhibition

  Like citrate, the molecule hydroxycitrate is shown to inhibit growth of the crystal that is the principal component of kidney stones, suggesting that hydroxycitrate could be another treatment for kidney stone disease.

  • Jihae Chung
  • , Ignacio Granja
  •  & Jeffrey D. Rimer

• Letter | 12 January 2011

  Nanoscale chemical tomography of buried organic–inorganic interfaces in the chiton tooth

  Many biomineralized tissues (such as teeth and bone) are hybrid inorganic–organic materials whose properties are determined by their convoluted internal structures. Now, using a chiton tooth as an example, this study shows how the internal structural and chemical complexity of such biomaterials and their synthetic analogues can be elucidated using pulsed-laser atom-probe tomography.

  • Lyle M. Gordon
  •  & Derk Joester