Issue 83, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Ethanol assisted synthesis of pure and stable amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles†

Shao-Feng Chen,a   Helmut Cölfen,‡*b   Markus Antoniettib  and  Shu-Hong Yu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
E-mail: shyu@ustc.edu.cn
Fax: +86 551 63603040

b Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, MPI Research Campus Golm, Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

Stable monodispersed amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) nanoparticles can be synthesized in ethanol media by a facile method, and crystallization of ACC is kinetically controlled, resulting in the formation of three polymorphs in a mixed solvent of ethanol–water at different pH values.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC45427D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Jul 2013
Accepted
15 Aug 2013
First published
16 Aug 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 9564-9566

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Ethanol assisted synthesis of pure and stable amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles

S. Chen, H. Cölfen, M. Antonietti and S. Yu, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9564 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45427D

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