Handbook of Biomineralization

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 editors - all well-known members of associations and prestigious institutes - have assembled an international team of renowned authors to provide first-hand research results.

From the contents: Volume 1: The Biology of Biominerals Structure Formation - Hydrated Polysilicondioxide Iron Sulfides and Oxides, Calcium Carbonates, and Sulfates Calcium Phosphates; Volume 2: Biomimetic And Bio-Inspired Materials Chemistry - Biometic Model Systems in Biomineralization, The Biomineral Approach to Bionics, Bio-inspired Materials Synthesis, Bio-supported Materials Chemistry, Protein Cages as Size-contrained, Reaction Vessels Encapsulation, Imaging of Internal Nanostructures of Biominerals; and, Volume 3: Biomineralization In Medicine - Bone Teeth Pathological Calcifications.This book is an interdisciplinary must-have account, for biochemists, bioinorganic chemists, lecturers in chemistry and biochemistry, materials scientists, biologists, and solid state physicists.