Hierarchical porosity of carbonates can facilitate their performance in massive applications
as compared to their corresponding bulk samples. Traditional solution-based precipitation is …

Pulling growth technique serves as a popular method to grow congruent melting single
crystals with multiscale sizes ranging from micrometers to centimeters. In order to obtain …

Nucleation is the key step of crystallization and is also the most difficult part to observe, as it
evolves in very short temporal and spatial resolution. Conflicts between the features of …

The ability to control crystallization reactions is required in a vast range of processes
including the production of functional inorganic materials and pharmaceuticals and the …

Phase transformations of carbonates are relevant to a wide range of biological,
environmental, and industrial processes. Over the past decade, it emerged that …

Incorporation of a Ba impurity in amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) is shown with ab initio
molecular dynamics simulations to have a long-range effect on its atomic-level structure and …

Metastable carbonates play important roles in geochemistry, biomineralization and serve as
model systems for nonclassical theories of nucleation and growth. Balcite (Ca0. 5Ba0 …

Significant work on the aqueous nucleation and growth of pure calcium carbonate has
brought to light the importance of intermediate amorphous phases. In contrast, the factors …

Barium carbonate (BaCO3) materials with the controllable morphology of nanoparticles
were selectively loaded into the lumen halloysite nanotubes (abbreviated as Hal) by a …

Characterization of crystallization processes in situ is of great importance to furthering
knowledge of how nucleation and growth processes direct the assembly of organic and …