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Molecular tectonics in biomineralization and biomimetic materials chemistry

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The systematic fabrication of advanced materials will require the construction of architectures over scales ranging from the molecular to the macroscopic. The basic constructional processes of biomineralization—supramolecular pre-organization, interfacial molecular recognition (templating) and cellular processing—can provide useful archetypes for molecular-scale building, or ‘molecular tectonics’, in inorganic materials chemistry.

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