Recent Progress in the Solid-State NMR Studies of Biomineralization

Biomineralization is a challenging research area because it is extremely difficult to study the interaction between two dissimilar organic and inorganic nanophases. In this review, we have briefly discussed some advanced solid-state NMR techniques developed for the study of biominerals or related in vitro model systems. The P-31 NMR parameters of a list of model compounds have been compiled. These data should be useful for analyzing the NMR spectra of biominerals. We intend to provide an account of how one can employ the state-of-the-art solid-state NMR techniques to extract valuable structural information of biominerals that would be difficult to obtain otherwise.