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SUBMITTER: Green DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5120221 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20161118
From biomineralization to synthesis, organic additives provide an effective means of controlling crystallization processes. There is growing evidence that these additives are often occluded within the crystal lattice. This promises an elegant means of creating nanocomposites and tuning physical properties. Here we use the incorporation of sulfonated fluorescent dyes to gain new understanding of additive occlusion in calcite (CaCO<sub>3</sub>), and to link morphological changes to occlusion mecha ...[more]