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collagen composite. Biomaterials 24:4881–4890
Pereira-Mourie `s L, Almeida MJ, Ribeiro C, Peduzzi J, Barthe ´lemy M, Milet C, Lopez E (2002)
Soluble silk-like organic matrix in the nacreous layer of the bivalve Pinctada maxima: a new
insight in the biomineralization field. Eur J Biochem 269:4994–5003
Plummer LN, Busenberg E (1982) The solubilities of calcite, aragonite and vaterite in CO 2 -H 2 O
solutions between 0 and 90
C, and an evaluation of the aqueous model for the system CaCO 3 -
CO 2 -H 2 O. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 46:1011–1040
Qiao L, Feng QL, Lu SS (2008a) In vitro growth of nacre-like tablet forming: from amorphous
calcium carbonate, nanostacks to hexagonal tablets. Cryst Growth Des 8(5):1509–1514
Qiao L, Feng QL, Li Z (2007) Special vaterite found in freshwater lackluster pearls. Cryst Growth
Des 2:275–279
Qiao L, Feng QL, Li Z, Lu SS (2008b) Alternate deposition of oriented calcite and amino acid
layer on calcite substrates. J Phys Chem B 112:13635–13640
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Eng C 29:919–924
Loste E, Wilson RM, Seshadri R, Meldrum FC (2003) The role of magnesium in stabilising
amorphous calcium carbonate and controlling calcite morphologies. J Cryst Growth
254:206–218
Lowenstam HA, Weiner S (1989) On biomineralization. Oxford University Press, New York
Mann S (1996) Inorganic materials, 2nd edn. Wiley, Chichester, p 255
Mann S (2001) Biomineralization. Oxford University Press, New York
Mann S, Heywood BR, Rajam S, Birchall JD (1988) Controlled crystallization of CaCO 3 under
stearic acid monolayers. Nature 334:692–695
Mann S, Archibald DD, Didymus JM, Douglas T, Heywood BR, Meldrum FC, Reeves NJ (1993)
Crystallization at inorganic-organic interfaces: biominerals and biomimetic synthesis. Science
261:1286–1292
Manoli F, Dalas E (2001) Calcium carbonate crystallization in the presence of glutamic acid.
J Cryst Growth 222:293–297
Marin F, Corstjens P, de Gaulejac B, Vrind-De Jong ED, Westbroek P (2000) Mucins and
molluscan calcification – molecular characterization of mucoperlin, a novel mucin-like protein
from the nacreous shell layer of the fan mussel Pinna nobilis (Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia). J Biol
Chem 275:20667–20675
Meyers MA, Chen PY, Lin AYM, Seki Y (2008) Biological materials: structure and mechanical
properties. Progress in Materials Science 53:1–206
Michenfelder M, Fu G, Lawrence C, Weaver JC, Wustman BA, Taranto L, Evans JS, Morsel DE
(2003) Characterization of two molluscan crystal-modulating biomineralization proteins and
identification of putative mineral binding domains. Biopolymers 70:522–533
Miyamoto H, Miyashita T, Okushima M, Nakano S, Morita T, Matsushiro A (1996) A
carbonic anhydrase from the nacreous layer in oyster pearls. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
93:9657–9660
Miyashita T, Takagi R, Okushima M, Nakano S, Miyamoto H, Nishikawa E, Matsushiro A (2000)
Complementary DNA cloning and characterization of pearlin, a new class of matrix protein in
the nacreous layer of oyster pearls. Mar Biotechnol 2:409–418
Oaki Y, Imai H (2005) The hierarchical architecture of nacre and its mimetic material. Angew
Chem Int Ed Engl 44:6571–6575
Ogasawara W, Shenton W, Davis SA, Mann S (2000) Template mineralization of ordered
macroporous chitin-silica composites using a cuttlebone-derived organic matrix. Chem
Mater 12:2835–2837
Pannella G (1971) Fish otoliths: daily growth layers and periodical patterns. Science
173:1124–1127
Pederson AW, Ruberti JW, Messersmith PB (2003) Thermal assembly of a biomimetic mineral/
collagen composite. Biomaterials 24:4881–4890
Pereira-Mourie `s L, Almeida MJ, Ribeiro C, Peduzzi J, Barthe ´lemy M, Milet C, Lopez E (2002)
Soluble silk-like organic matrix in the nacreous layer of the bivalve Pinctada maxima: a new
insight in the biomineralization field. Eur J Biochem 269:4994–5003
Plummer LN, Busenberg E (1982) The solubilities of calcite, aragonite and vaterite in CO 2 -H 2 O
solutions between 0 and 90
C, and an evaluation of the aqueous model for the system CaCO 3 -
CO 2 -H 2 O. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 46:1011–1040
Qiao L, Feng QL, Lu SS (2008a) In vitro growth of nacre-like tablet forming: from amorphous
calcium carbonate, nanostacks to hexagonal tablets. Cryst Growth Des 8(5):1509–1514
Qiao L, Feng QL, Li Z (2007) Special vaterite found in freshwater lackluster pearls. Cryst Growth
Des 2:275–279
Qiao L, Feng QL, Li Z, Lu SS (2008b) Alternate deposition of oriented calcite and amino acid
layer on calcite substrates. J Phys Chem B 112:13635–13640
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