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From: Biomineralization of bone tissue: calcium phosphate-based inorganics in collagen fibrillar organic matrices

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a Mechanism of mesocrystals; (1) alignments by the organic matrix and (2) physical forces, (3) crystalline bridges by epitaxial growth and secondary nucleation, (4) alignments by spatial constraints, (5) oriented attachment, and (6) face selective molecules [113]. b Cryo-TEM (1) image and (2) SAED pattern of the mineralized collagen fibril in the presence of pAsp [117]. c (1) TEM image of mineralized triple-helix protein molecule, (2) and (3) filtered and zoomed images of mineralized triple-helix protein molecules [123], Copyright © 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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