Nature is able to produce large single crystals with complex shape via amorphous precursor phases in the process of biomineralization (the picture shows an SEM image of a fracture surface of a sea urchin spicule). This strategy can be mimicked for the template synthesis of large single-crystalline materials with controllable complex shape.
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