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Zusatztext "? a very useful source not only for researchers in the general area of biominerals! but for anyone engaged in the synthesis and analysis of the structure! properties! and applications of hybrid materials. ? [It] covers experimental and computational methods over all necessary length scales from the atomic to the macroscopic dimensions! including! for example! whole organ mechanical analysis. ? The key importance of the book likely lies in the fact that for the first time in a while! the key experimental techniques for the investigation of hybrid materials have been assembled in one volume."-MaterialsViews! July 2014"This sourcebook provides both a background foundation and authoritative descriptions of essentially all of these new approaches [in biomineralization research]. Thus! it will be an indispensable source for advanced students and researchers in the field."-Grayson W. Marshall! DDS! MPH! PhD! Odont. Dr hc (Malmo)! Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Chair! Division of Biomaterials and Bioengineering! University of California! San Francisco"? provides state-of-the-art information about the characterization of biomineralized materials! and also goes in depth with the practical procedures and inherent difficulties when applying these methods. For this! the book will be particularly useful to students! postdocs!?and other researchers entering the field."-Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Peter Fratzl! Director! Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces"? a highly relevant compendium of the most important! currently available analytical techniques used to understand biomineralization processes and the structures they produce."-Marc D. McKee! Ph.D.! James McGill Professor! McGill University"This handbook [also] includes ? many other fantastic techniques that are used for better understanding biomineralization. The collection of all this know-how literally under one cover is an enormous asset for the field." -From the Foreword by Steve Weiner and Lia Addadi! Department of Structural Biology! Weizmann Institute of Science Informationen zum Autor Elaine DiMasi is a physicist and synchrotron x-ray scattering expert, and has made her career at Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1996. Research for her PhD (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and postdoctoral appointment (BNL) focused on structure and electronic properties in metallic condensed matter systems. Since 1999 she has investigated numerous aspects of Biomineralization including: mineralization at Langmuir films, assembly and mineralization of extracellular matrix proteins, structures of organics assembled on mineral surfaces, and microbeam diffraction mapping of mineral-organic composites and biological minerals. More recent areas of interest include lipid-mineral interactions and soft X-ray microspectroscopy. DiMasi currently is engaged in building a state of the art synchrotron x-ray scattering facility at the National Synchrotorn Light Source II, dedicated to soft- and bio-materials, specializing in aqueous interfaces, providing the capabilities to measure hierarchical structures of biominerals for a wide range of length scales and in realistic material environments. Laurie B. Gower is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and supervisor of the Biomimetics Laboratory at the University of Florida. Her Master’s degree from University of Utah was in the area of Bioengineering (1990), and doctoral degree from UMASS at Amherst was in the area of Polymer Science & Engineering (1997). In the latter case, her dissertation was focused on biomineralization, making use of model systems to examine the interactions between polypeptides and crystal growth, and correlating features observed in the in vitro systems to those observed in biominerals. Most of the research in her academic career has continued along these lines of examining potential mechanisms involve...
