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Corals build strong, sustainable skeletal materials in challenging environments, offering blueprints for advanced biomaterials and biofabrication. Understanding coral biomineralization can inspire energy-efficient, self-organizing manufacturing for engineering and biomedical applications.

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Area of Science:

  • Marine Biology
  • Material Science
  • Biomineralization

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  • Scleractinian corals create vital ecosystems and engineer remarkable skeletal materials.
  • Coral skeletons exhibit exceptional mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and sustainable synthesis, even in low-energy conditions.
  • Understanding coral biomineralization is key to unlocking innovative material science applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize current knowledge on coral biomineralization processes.
  • To explore the two main viewpoints: biologically controlled versus physicochemical controlled biomineralization.
  • To recast coral growth as a multiscale biofabrication process for next-generation materials.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and synthesis of existing research on coral biomineralization.
  • Analysis of coral skeletal material properties and synthesis conditions.
  • Conceptual framework development for coral growth as biofabrication.

Main Results:

  • Coral biomineralization involves complex processes with ongoing debate between biological and physicochemical control.
  • Coral growth can be viewed as a multiscale, parallelized biofabrication process.
  • Sustainable, energy-efficient manufacturing principles can be derived from coral skeletal formation.

Conclusions:

  • Coral skeletal material science offers blueprints for transformative innovations in biomedical and engineering fields.
  • Insights into coral growth can drive the development of sustainable, self-organizing, and energy-efficient manufacturing.
  • The study provides pathways for developing next-generation materials inspired by nature, addressing the question: "How to build like a coral?"