Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Thermal assisted self-organization of calcium carbonate

  • Gan Zhang,
  • Cristobal Verdugo-Escamilla,
  • Duane Choquesillo-Lazarte,
  • Juan Manuel García-Ruiz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07658-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Self-organization of multi-textured mineral architectures is challenging. Here, the authors control the growth temperature of silica carbonate biomorphs and demonstrated the structure is not limited to orthorhombic carbonates and open a route for creating complex self-organised silica and chalk materials.