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The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor
Antonio G. Checa, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Isabel Sánchez-Almazo +2
Cuttlebone, the sophisticated buoyancy device of cuttlefish, is made of extensive superposed chambers that have a complex internal arrangement of calcified pillars and organic memb…
Calcium Carbonate Polyamorphism and Its Role in Biomineralization: How Many Amorphous Calcium Carbonates Are There?
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Antonio G. Checa, Julian D. Gale +2
Although the polymorphism of calcium carbonate is well known, and its polymorphs-calcite, aragonite, and vaterite-have been highly studied in the context of biomineralization, poly…
Mineral bridges in nacre revisited
Antonio G. Checa, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marc-Georg Willinger
We confirm with high-resolution techniques the existence of mineral bridges between superposed nacre tablets. In the towered nacre of both gastropods and the cephalopod Nautilus th…
Crystal growth as an excitable medium
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Antonio G. Checa, Bruno Escribano +1
Crystal growth has been widely studied for many years, and, since the pioneering work of Burton, Cabrera and Frank, spirals and target patterns on the crystal surface have been und…