Unraveling the structural order of amorphous calcium carbonate using inelastic neutron scattering.

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Calcium carbonates make up some of the most abundant minerals in the world. They are of great importance in geology and in the field of biomaterials as well as having several industrial applications. Despite the high interest, detailed structural information on several calcium carbonates still does not exist. This is especially true for amorphous calcium carbonate, a kinetically stabilized intermediate, also in biological mineralization. Therefore, solving the structure of ACC would increase our understanding of the formation of complex hierarchical biomaterials. Traditionally this has been attempted with MAS-NMR, EXAFS, RAMAN and many other techniques. However, this only gives information on the closest coordination sphere. By performing Inelastic neutron scattering on standardized ACC we intent to characterize the dynamics of ACC with emphasis on the structure of water inside the ACC.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.67771339
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/67771339
Provenance
Creator Dr Wouter Habraken; Dr Luca Bertinetti; Professor Stewart Parker; Mr Anders Jensen; Dr Pedro Duarte Vaz
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-12-07T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-12-12T09:00:00Z