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Microemulsion-based synthesis of stacked calcium carbonate (calcite) superstructures
Chulanapa Viravaidya1, Mei Li, Stephen Mann
1School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BS8 1TS.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 7, 2004
Abstract:
Synthesis of calcium carbonate in water-in-oil microemulsions results in the spontaneous formation of stacked superstructures of 20 nm-thick pseudo-hexagonal calcite plates in crystallographic register.