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Brigham and Women’s Researchers Growing Bones with Clay The synthetic clay once used to make ceramic fillers now helps researchers grow bones. By Jenni Whalen · 7/15/2013, 7:35 a.m.

They started their research using the synthetic clay Na-fluorohectorite. When immersed in water, Na-fluorohectorite forms liquid crystal suspensions with single nanosheets of the mineral separated at ...