Biomineralogy and Extreme Biomimetics
Biomaterials
Final Report Abstract
Psychrophilic calcification occurs in both unicellular pro- and eukaryotic organisms as well as in multicellular animals like bryozoans, corals, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, and fish. They are able to synthetize their calcium carbonate and/or calcium phosphate-containing skeletons under frigid environmental conditions.There is a lack of knowledge about mechanisms of calcification at temperatures near the freezing point. Low temperatures lead to exponential decreases in chemical reaction rates. Consequently, the thermodynamic aspects of biomineralization in the hard tissues of psychrophilic biocalcifiers are of principal scientific interest. For the first time selected hard tissues (teeth, bones, otoliths and scales) from diverse ice fish species have been studies with respect to identification of naturally occurring calcium phosphate phases. These biological materials have been characterized by broad variety of modern bioanalytical and physico-chemical techniques in order to determine their morphology, composition, and structure. Our experiments show with strong evidence the occurrence of crystalline hydroxyapatite within the mineralized tissues of icefish species like C. gunnari and D. mawsoni. This suggests the existence of naturally occurring mechanisms for calcification and the developing of crystalline phases at temperatures near the freezing point of sea water. During the project time, we succeed in development of novel setup for the production calcium phosphate-based composites using selected organic matrices under temperature of minus 2°C. For the first time the formation of dicalciumphosphatedihydrate (DCPD) under extreme biomimetics conditions using ice fish collagen in vitro has been confirmed.
Publications
- (2016) Marine Sponges: Chemicobiological and Biomedical Applications. Springer India, pp. 381
Pallela R., Ehrlich H. (Eds.)
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2794-6) - (2016) Multiphase biomineralization: enigmatic invasive siliceous diatoms produce crystalline calcite. Advanced Functional Materials 26:2503–2510
Ehrlich H., Motylenko M., Sundareshwar P.V., Ereskovsky A.V., Zglobicka I., Noga T., Plocinski T., Tsurkan M., Wyroba E., Suski S., Bilski H., Wysokowski M., Stöcker H., Makarova A., Vyalikh D., Walter J., Molodtsov S.L., Bazhenov V.V., Petrenko I., Langer E., Richter A., Niederschlag E., Pisarek M., Springer A., Gelinsky M., Rafaja D., Witkowski A., Meyer D.C., Jesionowski T., Kurzydlowski K.J.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201504891) - (2016) Supercontinuum generation in naturally occurring glass sponges spicules. Advanced Optical Materials 4(10):1608–1613
Ehrlich H., Maldonado M., Parker A.R., Kulchin Y.N., Schilling J., Köhler B., Skrzypczak U., Simon P., Reiswig H.M., Tsurkan M., Brunner E., Voznesenskiy S.S., Bezverbny A.V., Golik S.S., Nagorny I.G., Vyalikh D.V., Makarova A.A., Molodtsov S.L., Kummer K., Mertig M., Erler C., Kurek D.V., Bazhenov V.V., Natalio F., Kovalev A.E., Gorb S.N., Stelling A.L., Heitmann J., Born R., Meyer D.C., Tabachnick K.R.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201600454) - (2017) Extreme Biomimetics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 276
Ehrlich H. (Ed.)
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45340-8) - (2017) On chemistry of γ–chitin. Carbohydrate Polymers 176:177–186
Kaya M., Mutajba M., Ehrlich H., Salaberria A.M., Baran T., Amemiya C.T., Galli R., Akyuz L., Sargin I., Labidi J.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.08.076) - (2018) Biosilica as source for inspiration in biological materials science. American Mineralogist 103(5):665–691
Wysokowski M., Jesionowski T., Ehrlich H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6429) - (2018) Collagens of poriferan origin. Marine Drugs 16:79
Ehrlich H., Wysokowski M., Żółtowska–Aksamitowska S., Petrenko I., Jesionowski T.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3390/md16030079) - (2018) Extreme biomimetics: carbonized 3D spongin scaffold as a novel support for nanostructured manganese oxide (IV) and its electrochemical applications. Nano Research 11(8):4199–4214
Szatkowski T., Kopczyński K., Motylenko M., Borrmann H., Mania B., Graś M., Lota G., Bazhenov V.V., Rafaja D., Roth F., Weise J., Langer E., Wysokowski M., Żółtowska– Aksamitowska S., Petrenko I., Molodtsov S.L., Hubálková J., Aneziris C.G., Joseph Y., Stelling A.L., Ehrlich H., Jesionowski T.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-018-2008-x) - (2018) Marine spongin: naturally prefabricated 3D scaffold–based biomaterial. Marine Drugs 16:88
Jesionowski T., Norman M., Żółtowska–Aksamitowska S., Petrenko I., Yoseph Y., Ehrlich H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3390/md16030088) - (2018) Sonochemical synthesis of terbium tungstate for developing high power supercapacitors with enhanced energy densities. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 45:189–196
Sobhani–Nasab A., Rahimi–Nasrabadi M., Reza Naderi H., Poirmohamadien V., Ahmadi F., Reza Ganjali M., Ehrlich H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2018.03.011)
