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Biomineralization encompasses the natural mineralization processes which provide a great variety of inorganic structures such as teeth, bones, shells and carapaces. These properties have been optimized by natural selection for a given function and they have achieved remarkable performances that fascinate material chemists. Inspired by these processes, a so called "soft chemistry", which is implemented in physiological environmental conditions, has been developed over the last few decades. The biomineralization domain has been extended to new strategies for material synthesis inspired by processes observed in living organisms.
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Biomineralization refers to the natural mineralization processes that produce a wide variety of inorganic structures such as teeth, bones, shells and carapaces.
These properties have been optimized by natural selection for a given function, and achieve remarkable performance levels that fascinate materials chemists.
Inspired by these processes, the last two decades have seen the development of a type of chemistry practiced under physiological environmental conditions, known as "soft chemistry" . The field of biomineralization has expanded to include new materials synthesis strategies inspired by processes observed in living organisms.
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