Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

To address the growing energy demands of sustainable development, it is crucial to develop
new materials that can improve the efficiency of energy storage systems. Hierarchically …

Owing to their immense potential in energy conversion and storage, catalysis,
photocatalysis, adsorption, separation and life science applications, significant interest has …

An emerging strategy for synthesizing nanoclusters and nanoparticles involves the
confinement of particle precursors within small volumes and the subsequent reduction and …

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

The rise of organic–inorganic hybrid materials in both academia and industry results from a
convergence of diverse expertise and communities and is driven by the curiosity of open …

Natural structural materials are built at ambient temperature from a fairly limited selection of
components. They usually comprise hard and soft phases arranged in complex hierarchical …

Biomineralization is a naturally occurring process in living organisms. In this review, we
discuss microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) in detail. In the MICP …

Many crystallization processes of great importance, including frost heave, biomineralization,
the synthesis of nanomaterials, and scale formation, occur in small volumes rather than bulk …

The mineralized collagen fibril is the basic building block of bone, and is commonly pictured
as a parallel array of ultrathin carbonated hydroxyapatite (HAp) platelets distributed …