Nanocomposite Synthesis: Embryonic States of Fluorapatite–Gelatine Nanocomposites and Their Intrinsic Electric‐Field‐Driven Morphogenesis: The Missing Link on the Way from Atomistic Simulations to Pattern Formation on the Mesoscale (Adv. Funct. Mater. 22/2009)

Fractal aggregates of fluorapatite–gelatine nanocomposites (SEM image taken by Yigit Öztan, MPI CPfS)—which bears a strong resemblance to the biosystem hydroxyapatite–collagen, a key material in human bones and teeth–are formed from bundles of calcified protein molecules representing the first (embryonic) states of shape development and leading to extended processes of self-organisation. This process has been studied in detail by P. Simon et al., and is reported on page 3596.