Unifying Design Strategies in Demosponge and Hexactinellid Skeletal Systems

Unifying Design Strategies in Demosponge and Hexactinellid Skeletal Systems James C. Weaver a; Garrett W. Milliron a; Peter Allen b; Ali Miserez c; Aditya Rawal d; Javier Garay e; Philipp J. Thurner f; Jong Seto g; Boaz Mayzel h; Larry Jon Friesen i; Bradley F. Chmelka d; Peter Fratzl g; Joanna Aizenberg j; Yannicke Dauphin k; David Kisailus a;Daniel E. Morse l a Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA b Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA c Materials Department and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA d Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA e Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA f Bioengineering Science Research Group, School of Engineering Science, University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton, U.K. g Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany h Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel i Department of Biological Sciences, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA j School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA k UMR IDES, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France l Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, Materials Research Laboratory, and California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA