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SUBMITTER: Kim YY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4104461 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Yi-Yeoun YY Schenk Anna S AS Ihli Johannes J Kulak Alex N AN Hetherington Nicola B J NB Tang Chiu C CC Schmahl Wolfgang W WW Griesshaber Erika E Hyett Geoffrey G Meldrum Fiona C FC
Nature communications 20140711
The term mesocrystal has been widely used to describe crystals that form by oriented assembly, and that exhibit nanoparticle substructures. Using calcite crystals co-precipitated with polymers as a suitable test case, this article looks critically at the concept of mesocrystals. Here we demonstrate that the data commonly used to assign mesocrystal structure may be frequently misinterpreted, and that these calcite/polymer crystals do not have nanoparticle substructures. Although morphologies sugg ...[more]