Handbook of Biomineralization

Edmund Bäuerlein, Peter Behrens, Matthias Epple, Jeremy Pickett-Heaps, Stephen Mann, Wolfgang Pompe978-1-527-31805-6, 978-3-527-31641-0, 978-3-527-31804-9, 978-3-527-31805-6, 978-3-527-31806-3

This first comprehensive overview of the modern aspects of biomineralization represents life and materials science at its best: Bioinspired pathways are the hot topics in many disciplines and this holds especially true for biomineralization.Here, the editors – well-known members of associations and prestigious institutes – have assembled an international team of renowned authors to provide first-hand research results.This second volume deals with biometic model systems in biomineralization, including the biomineral approach to bionics, bioinspired materials synthesis and bio-supported materials chemistry, encapsulation and the imaging of internal nanostructures of biominerals.An interdisciplinary must-have account, for biochemists, bioinorganic chemists, lecturers in chemistry and biochemistry, materials scientists, biologists, and solid state physicists.