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Helical microstructures in molluscan biomineralization are a biological example of close packed helices that may form from a colloidal liquid crystal precursor in a twist-bend nematic phase
Katarzyna Berent, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Antonio G. Checa +3
We demonstrate that nature has produced a close-packed helical twisted filamentous material in the biomineralization of the mollusc. In liquid crystals, twist-bend nematics have be…
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…
Pearls Are Self-Organized Natural Ratchets
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Antonio G. Checa, Marthe Rousseau
Pearls, the most flawless and highly prized of them, are perhaps the most perfectly spherical macroscopic bodies in the biological world. How are they so round? Why are other pearl…
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…