Review Article

The Role of Proteins in Biosilicification

Figure 8

TEM images of the fractal structures formed by T. aurantia silicatein, initially depolymerized from spicules at pH 9 and then allowed to reassemble at low temperature. The fractal dimension of 1.7, obtained by counting the number of filled squares within boxes of increasing size, indicates formation of an elaborate self-assembly network by simple Brownian motion. Reproduced with permission from [100].
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