ArticleACS biomaterials science & engineering2023
Organization and Formation of the Crossed-Foliated Biomineral Microstructure of Limpet Shells.
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- Calcite Tailoring by Limpets: The Prismatic and Acicular-Foliated Microstructures of Members of The Nacellidae.Crystal growth & design · 2026Article
- Molluscan Shells, Spicules, and Gladii Are Evolutionarily Deeply Conserved.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2025Article
- Morphogenesis of Aragonite Biomineral Structures by the Nonclassical Colloidal Crystal Growth Mechanism Revisited on the Nanoscale: The Noah's Ark Shell (ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025Article
- Classical View on Nonclassical Crystal Growth in a Biological Setting.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Review
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Abstract
To construct their shells, molluscs are able to produce a large array of calcified materials including granular, prismatic, lamellar, fibrous, foliated, and plywood-like microstructures. The latter includes an aragonitic (the crossed-lamellar) and a calcitic (the crossed-foliated) variety, whose modes of formation are particularly enigmatic. We studied the crossed-foliated calcitic layers secreted solely by members of the limpet family Patellidae using scanning and transmission electron microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction. From the exterior to the interior, the material becomes progressively organized into commarginal first-order lamellae, with second and third order lamellae dipping in opposite directions in alternating lamellae. At the same time, the crystallographic texture becomes stronger because each set of the first order lamellae develops a particular orientation for the
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