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Calcium Carbonate Formation in the Presence of Biopolymeric Additives
Published on: May 14, 2019
Macromolecule loading into spherical, elliptical, star-like and cubic calcium carbonate carriers
Bogdan V Parakhonskiy1, Alexey M Yashchenok, Senem Donatan
1BIOtech research center, Department of Physics, University of Trento via delle Regole 101, 38123 Mattarello (Italy), Fax: (+39) 0461 283659; Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography Russian Academy of Science, Leninskii prospekt 59, Moscow 119333 (Russia). bogdan.parakhonskiy@unitn.it.
Abstract:
We fabricated calcium carbonate particles with spherical, elliptical, star-like and cubical morphologies by varying relative salt concentrations and adding ethylene glycol as a solvent to slow down the rate of particle formation. The loading capacity of particles of different isotropic (spherical and cubical) and anisotropic (elliptical and star-like) geometries is investigated, and the surface area of such carriers is analysed. Potential applications of such drug delivery carriers are highlighted.
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