Handbook of Biomineralization (engl. Ausgabe)

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 editor has assembled an international team of renowned authors to provide first-hand research results.
This first of three volumes deals with the biology of biominerals structure formation, with sections on silica-hydrated polysilicondioxide, iron sulfides and oxides, calcium carbonates and sulfates, as well as calcium phosphates.
An interdisciplinary must-have account, for biochemists, bioinorganic chemists, lecturers in chemistry and biochemistry, materials scientists, biologists, and solid state physicists.

Growth and Form:
What is the Aim of Biomineralization
SILICA-HYDRATED POLYSILICONDIOXIDE
Collagen, a Huge Matrix in Glass Sponge Flexible Spicules of the Meter-long Hyalonema Sieboldi
Molecular Genetic and Biochemical Tools for the Analysis of Diatom Cell Wall Formation
Formation of Siliceous Spicules in the Marine Demosponge Suberites Domuncula
Development of Advanced Mechanical Defenses of Diatom Shells
Evolution of Diatoms
Uptake of Silicon in Different Plant Species
IRON SULFIDES AND OXIDES
Magnetic Microstructure of Magnetotactic Bacteria
An Archeal Ferritin: First Step in its Iron Cluster Formation
Physiology and Genetics of Magnetite Crystal Formation in Magnetotactic Bacteria
Physical and Chemical Principles of Magnetosensation in Biology
CALCIUM CARBONATES AND SULFATES
The Morphogenesis and Biomineralization of Sea Urchin Laval Spicules
Coccolith Formation in Pleurochrysis Carterae: Structural and Molecular Approaches
Molecular Approaches to Emiliana Huxleyi Coccolith Formation
Organic Matrix and Biomineralization of Scleractinian Corals
Statoliths, Calcium Sulfate Hemihydrate Crystals, are Used for Gravity Sensing in Scyphozoan Medusa (Cnidaria)
Unusually Acidic Proteins in Biomineralization
Fish Otolith Calcification in Relation to Endolymph Chemistry
Eggshell Growth and Matrix Proteins
CALCIUM PHOSPHATES
Genetic Basis for the Evolution of Vertebrate Mineralized Tissue
Skeletogenesis in Zebra Fish Embryos (Danio Rerio)
Synchroton-Radiation Based Micro Computer Tomography Applied on Zebra Fish Bone and Teeth
Mechanical and Structural Properties of Skeletal Bone in Wild-Type and Mutant Zebra Fish (Danio Rerio)
Nanoscale Mechanism of Bone Deformation and Fracture
Formation and Structure of Calciprotein Particles: The Calcium Phosphate-Ahsg/FetuinA Interphase

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Themen:

• Anorganische Chemie
• Bioanorganische Chemie
• Biochemie
• Festkörperphysik
• Organische Chemie