Investigation on Properties of Collagen Nanowires Quasiepitaxially Grown on Mica Lattice Plane

Collagen fibrils and hydroxyapatite might recognize each other at the mesoscale by multiple cooperative interactions due to their intrinsically repetitive structured surfaces, and thus effectively directing the biomineralization, a biological process involving regulating the growth of bones, teeth and other organs. In this work, a simple technique was developed to prepare nanowire arrays of biological macromolecules by reversely using the...