Abstract:Mineralized fibrils are important building blocks in bone tissue, formed by the hierarchical assembly of collagen molecules and crystalline hydroxyapatite (HAp). The mineralization pathway of HAp is reported as a nonclassical‐crystallization, but the nanoconfined crystallization in collagen fibrils remains poorly understood. The mechanism of intrafibrillar mineralization of collagen‐PDA fibrils in modified‐simulated body fluid (m‐SBF) solution is studied. Collagen‐amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) fibrils are … Show more
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