“…Considering that each platelet is a polycrystalline assembly, its size could readily vary according to the physical environmental conditions. Because the crystalline complexes have high resistance to enzymatic hydrolysis, whereas amorphous matrices are easily hydrolyzed (Biais, Bail, Robert, Pontoire, & Buléon, 2006;Cui & Oates, 1999;Godet et al, 1996), the crystalline complexes could be recovered by enzymatic hydrolysis. The hydrolysis pattern of the complex has been reported by several researches (Cui & Oates, 1999;Gelders et al, 2005), but the maximum degree of hydrolysis of the complex in this study was higher than those in the literature (Fig.…”