Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Local pH oscillations witness autocatalytic self-organization of biomorphic nanostructures

  • M. Montalti,
  • G. Zhang,
  • D. Genovese,
  • J. Morales,
  • M. Kellermeier,
  • J. M. García-Ruiz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14427
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Silica biomorphs have similar structural features found in natural biominerals, but consist of inorganic components that self-assemble spontaneously. Here the authors show that pH oscillates in the local environment during the growth of self-organized silica-carbonates nanostructures.