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Stephen Weiner
Researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science
Publications - 70
Citations - 12241
Stephen Weiner is an academic researcher from Weizmann Institute of Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Calcite & Biomineralization. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 69 publications receiving 11529 citations.
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Taking Advantage of Disorder: Amorphous Calcium Carbonate and Its Roles in Biomineralization
TL;DR: Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) in its pure form is highly unstable, yet some organisms produce stable ACC, and cases are known in which ACC functions as a transient precursor of more stable crystalline aragonite or calcite.
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Design strategies in mineralized biological materials
Stephen Weiner,Lia Addadi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between structure and function relations of biological materials and found that organisms have developed several strategies to produce materials that have more robust properties compared to those that have less robust properties.
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Control and Design Principles in Biological Mineralization
Lia Addadi,Stephen Weiner +1 more
TL;DR: The control of crystal formation has been developed to a remarkable degree by many organisms as discussed by the authors, including the control of oriented nucleation, control over crystal morphology, formation of unique composites of proteins and single crystals, and the production of ordered multicrystal arrays.
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Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which progressive levels of burning may occur to archaeological bone, and how burning damage changes bones' crystal structure and susceptibility to fragmentation (a.k.a. friability).
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Amorphous calcium carbonate transforms into calcite during sea urchin larval spicule growth
TL;DR: It is shown that an additional mineral phase, amorphous calcium carbonate, is present in the sea urchin larval spicule, and that this inherently unstable mineral transforms into calcite with time.