journal article·2010-02-23

Insights into Chemistry of Biological Materials: Newly Discovered Silica-Aragonite-Chitin Biocomposites in Demosponges

Hermann Ehrlich, Paul Simon, Wilder Carrillo-Cabrera, Vasily V. Bazhenov, Joseph P. Botting, Micha Ilan, Alexander V. Ereskovsky, Guilherme Muricy, Hartmut Worch, Axel Mensch, René Born, Armin Springer, Kurt Kummer, Denis V. Vyalikh, Serguei L. Molodtsov, Denis Kurek, Martin Kammer, Silvia Paasch, Eike Brunner

Chemistry of Materials· Volume 22· Issue 4
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Abstract

Biological materials are a rewarding area of modern materials science, yielding both evolutionary insights and inspiration for biomimetic research. In particular, biocomposite structures are valuable sources of novel structures with unusual chemical properties, and they are very informative for the mechanisms of biomineralization. Here we describe a unique biocomposite of amorphous silica, crystalline aragonite, and chitin from species of the order Verongida, a group of marine sponges. The structures have been analyzed with a diverse suite of techniques, revealing a chitinous template for siliceous overgrowth containing aragonite-based crystal aggregates. Sponge chitin is an example of a specific template where two minerals in amorphous and crystalline forms are formed together with an organic molecule.
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OpenAlex topics: Marine Sponges and Natural Products · Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods · Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry

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Affiliations

Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Dresden University of Technology, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Max Planck Institute of Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany

Institute of Chemistry and Applied Ecology, Far Eastern National University, 690650 Vladivostok, Russia

Leeds Museum Discovery Centre, Leeds LS10 1LB, U.K.

Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel

Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille, Station marine d’Endoume, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 6540-DIMAR, 13007 Marseille, France

Departmento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 20.940-040 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials and Institute of Materials Science, Dresden University of Technology, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Institute of Solid State Physics, Dresden University of Technology, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Center “Bioengineering” RAS, Moscow, 117312, Russia

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