Polymer to Biomineralized Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2016)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: crystal growth; nucleation; crystallization techniques, polymorphism, advanced materials, nanotechnology; functional materials; electrospun fibers and biomaterials, structure-property relationships
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomineralization is a very old process by which living organisms of different kingdoms, from bacteria to vertebrate, produce inorganic-organic hybrid materials. These biomineralized materials shows remarkable morphologies and advanced properties. The term bio-inspired mineralization can be understood in a broad sense, in which robust disciplines, such as chemistry, biology, paleontology, material sciences, and physics, are deeply involved. This Special Issue invites contributions in all areas of the Biomineralization field. This editor invites all authors worldwide to submit original research articles, communications and reviews that will stimule the continuing efforts to understand the molecular interactions between organic/inorganic materials and synthetic polymers and templates. We are interested in articles describing new synthetic functionalized polymers and templates; new modalities of crystallization methods, new insights of adsorption phenomenon of templates on hybrid materials; and advances and comprehensive overview of the new developments in chemistry, physics, and biological current concepts in biomineralization.
Prof. Dr. Andrónico Neira-Carrillo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Functionalization
- Polymer as template
- Additives
- Nano-interaction of templates and crystals
- Crystallization methods
- Bio-inspired strategies
- Hybrid materials
- Biomaterials
- Classical and non-classical crystallization
- Patological mineralization
- Mimic mechanism
- High resolution technologies
- Applications
