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− | The accomplishments of the natural world can inspire us to great engineering feats. Biomineralization is one particularly impressive trick accomplished in nature. Vertebrates, invertebrates and plants all are able to precisely position inorganic substrates into crystalline order. For example, calcium carbonate forms unstructured dust in the absence of genetically-programmed organizers, but the same material can be made into the hard and luminous shells of sea creatures as in the case of the abalone shell. Similarly, diatoms organize silicon dioxide into intricate patterns that manufacturers of electronic components are unable to recreate. In one more instance, bacteria align iron inside their cytoplasm to form magnetic rods on the submicron scale. These feats are accomplished without harsh chemicals, without extreme temperatures, and without noxious wastes that poison the nests of the organisms themselves. Humans have much to learn from nature |