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Section Board for 'Biomineralization and Biominerals' (19)
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Interests: biomineralization; mollusc shells; coral skeletons; bone and teeth; mineralogy; organic matrices; SEM; AFM; chromatography; electrophoresis; Infrared and Raman spectroscopy; XANES; electron microprobe; fossilization and diagenesis
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Interests: biomineralization (biologically induced mineralization and biologically controlled mineralization); reduction and precipitation of redox-sensitive metals and radionuclides; metal recovery
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Special Issue in Minerals: Asbestos Containing Materials

Interests: low-temperature mineralogy and geochemistry; stable and light isotope geochemistry; clay minerals and zeolites; hydrothermal alteration and diagenesis; biomineralization; uranium aqueous geochemistry; analytic techniques
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Interests: coral and shell growth-modes at the micrometer and infra-micrometer levels; microstructure and fossilization: fossils as environmental archives; microstructural development of the pearl layers: from early post-grafting stages to nacre biomineralization
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Interests: environmental mineralogy; interactions between minerals and microorganisms; mineral catalysis and environmental evolution on early earth; remediation of wastewater and mine tailings; pathological mineralization in human bodies

Interests: geomicrobiology; bio-weathering; microbial mineralization; carbon sink; bioremediation

Interests: carbonate geochemistry; proxy development; paleoclimate reconstructions
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Interests: physical chemistry; materials chemistry; crystallization; nucleation; non-classical crystallization; polyamorphism; pre-nucleation clusters; biomineralization; additive-controlled crystallization; bio-inspired materials
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Interests: Biogenic minerals, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, protein-crystal interactions, (cryo)electron microscopy, soft matter
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Special Issue in Minerals: Biominerals and Bio-Inspired Materials
Special Issue in Minerals: Feature Papers in Biomineralization and Biominerals 2022

Interests: sedimentary geochemistry; microbialites; iron crusts; geochemical redox proxies; biomineralization; C and O stable isotopes; biotic crisis

Interests: biomineralization; bone; mollusk shells; eggshell; laying hens; calcite; apatite

Interests: biomineralisation; paleoclimatology; climate change; geochemistry; evolution of marine calcifiers; ocean chemistry

Interests: biomineralization; proxy development; low temperature geochemistry; Raman spectroscopy; crystal nucleation; crystal growth
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Special Issue in Minerals: Biomineralization of Organisms Used as Environmental Proxy Archives

Interests: biomineralization; biogeochemistry; crystallography; microscopy; nanogeochemistry; electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD); atom probe tomography (APT); paleoecology
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Interests: anatomy; scanning electron microscopy; powder X-ray diffraction; raman spectroscopy

Interests: energy materials; biomineralization; interface sciences; crystallization; in situ atomic force microscopy
Interests: microbe-mineral-fluid interactions; environmental mineralogy; mineral formation kinetics and mechanisms; biomineralisation; remediation

Interests: skeletal micro- and ultrastructures; evolution of mineral composition; biomineralization in serpulids; biomineralization in problematic fossils; aragonite versus calcite seas; ocean acidification
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Special Issue in Minerals: Biomineralization and Biominerals: Lessons from Mineral-Producing Organisms
Interests: biomineralization; microarchaeology; bone formation; bone structure; tooth function; precursor minerals in biology; infrared spectroscopy; minerals in archaeology; atomic order in minerals; mineral diagenesis