@article{1521b08ff4e7466888d2cc968faab557,
title = "A nacre protein forms mesoscale hydrogels that {"}hijack{"} the biomineralization process within a seawater environment",
abstract = "We examined the mineralization performance of a nacre protein, AP7, within seawater mineralization assays that form aragonite and magnesium calcite. Under these conditions AP7 forms hydrogel particles that vary in size and complexity depending upon ionic conditions. These hydrogels {"}hijack{"} the mineralization process by limiting nucleation in bulk solution and promoting nucleation within the hydrogels.",
author = "Martin Pendola and Gaurav Jain and Anastasia Davidyants and Huang, {Yu Chieh} and Denis Gebauer and Evans, {John Spencer}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award DE-FG02-03ER46099 (JSE). YCH is supported by a doctoral fellowship of the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. DG is a Research Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz. This report represents contribution number 84 from the Laboratory for Chemical Physics, New York University. Publisher Copyright: This journal is {\textcopyright} 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1039/c6ce01887d",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "18",
pages = "7675--7679",
journal = "CrystEngComm",
issn = "1466-8033",
publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",
number = "40",
}