title: Mesoscopically ordered bone-mimetic nanocomposites.
abstract: A sustainable approach that highly mimics bone-material deposition is reported to produce mechanically stable, degradable composites with nanostructures resembling that of natural bone. Molecular self-assembly combining intermolecular crosslinking leads to resilient matrices possessing long-range ordered aqueous domains, inside which moderately aligned poorly crystalline apatite is converted from the transient amorphous calcium phosphate phase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Wen-Xiao
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Anand K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Rajasekharan
authors.forename: Ali R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Tehrani-Bagha
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Andersson
mesh_terms: D001031:Apatites / Q000737:chemistry; D040761:Biomimetic Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D053761:Nanocomposites / Q000737:chemistry*; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D001031:Apatites
keywords: biomimetic mineralization; bone-like apatite; molecular self-assembly; polymerizable amphiphiles; transient amorphous phase