A critical analysis of calcium carbonate mesocrystals
Yi-Yeoun Kim;Anna S. Schenk;Johannes Ihli;Alex N. Kulak;Nicola B. J. Hetherington;Chiu C. Tang;Wolfgang W. Schmahl;Erika Griesshaber;Geoffrey Hyett;Fiona C. Meldrum;Yi-Yeoun Kim;Anna S. Schenk;Johannes Ihli;Alex N. Kulak;Nicola B. J. Hetherington;Chiu C. Tang;Wolfgang W. Schmahl;Erika Griesshaber;Geoffrey Hyett;Fiona C. Meldrum;
Nature communications2014Vol. 5pp. 1-14
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kim2014naturea
Abstract
The term mesocrystal describes three-dimensional crystals formed by oriented assembly and that exhibit nanoparticle substructures. Here, the authors perform detailed structural analyses on synthetic calcium carbonate/polymer crystals, and show that common signatures used to assign mesocrystals may be unreliable.