Controlling calcium carbonate particle morphology, size, and molecular order using silicate

Lior Minkowicz; Arie Dagan; Vladimir Uvarov; Ofra Benny

doi:10.3390/ma14133525

Controlling calcium carbonate particle morphology, size, and molecular order using silicate

Lior Minkowicz, Arie Dagan, Vladimir Uvarov, Ofra Benny^*

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Abstract

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is one of the most abundant substances on earth and has a large array of industrial applications. Considerable research has been conducted in an effort to synthesize calcium carbonate microparticles with controllable and specific morphologies and sizes. CaCO3 produced by a precipitation reaction of calcium nitrate and sodium carbonate solution was found to have high polymorphism and batch to batch variability. In this study, we investigated the polymorphism of the precipitated material and analyzed the chemical composition, particle morphology, and crystalline state revealing that the presence of silicon atoms in the precipitant is a key factor effecting particle shape and crystal state. An elemental analysis of single particles within a polymorphic sample, using energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (EDS) conjugated microscopy, showed that only spherical particles, but not irregular shaped one, contained traces of silicon atoms. In agreement, silicon‐containing additives lead to homogenous, amorphous nanosphere particles, verified by X‐ray powder diffraction (XRD). Our findings provide important insights into the mechanism of calcium carbonate synthesis, as well as introducing a method to control the precipitants at the micro‐scale for many diverse applications.

Original language	American English
Article number	3525
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Journal	Materials
Volume	14
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14133525
State	Published - 1 Jul 2021

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The authors thank Eliana Steinberg, Bella Shusterman and Riva Nataf for proofreading, Eduard Berenshtein from the Core Research Facility of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his help in the SEM and TEM studies, and Evgenia Blayvas from the Nano?center of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her help in the SEM studies. We also thank Center Bloom?s Pharmacy at HUJI.

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Keywords

Calcite
Calcium carbonate
EDS
Nanoparticles
Sodium silicate
calcium carbonate
nanoparticles
calcite
sodium silicate

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