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Controlled growth of micropatterned, oriented calcite films on a self-assembled multilayer film
Conghua Lu1, Limin Qi, Jiming Ma
1State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A micropatterned multilayer film, which was fabricated from layer-by-layer electrostatic self-assembly of nitrodiazoresin (NDR)/poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) followed by photolithography, was utilized as a structured template for the biomimetic mineralization of calcium carbonate. Micropatterned CaCO3 films consisting of regularly aligned calcite crystals oriented in the <104> direction were selectively deposited on the patterned NDR/PAA multilayer film.
