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Mesoporous Silica: A Perfectly Periodic Three‐Dimensional Protein/Silica Mesoporous Structure Produced by an Organism (Adv. Mater. 11/2014)

Igor Zlotnikov, Peter Werner, Horst Blumtritt, Andreas Graff, Yannicke Dauphin, Emil Zolotoyabko, Peter Fratzl

Advanced Materials· Volume 26· Issue 11
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Abstract

The discovery of a perfectly ordered 3D mesoporous protein/silica structure in the axial filament of the marine sponge Monorhaphis chuni is reported by I. Zlotnikov and co-workers on page 1682. The structure belongs to a body-centered tetragonal symmetry system and comprises interconnecting lattices of protein (red) and silica (green), templated by the self-assembled, enzymatically active protein silicatein, whose primary function is the precipitation of silica.
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OpenAlex topics: Diatoms and Algae Research · Marine Sponges and Natural Products · Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition

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Affiliations

Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam 14476 Germany

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics 06120 Halle Germany

Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials 06120 Halle Germany

Micropaléontologie, UFR TEB Université P. & M. Curie 75252 Paris Cedex 05 France

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000 Israel

Department of Biomaterials Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam 14476 Germany

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