Vaterite Stabilization in CaCO₃Crystal Growth by Amino Acid

Growth of aragonite calcium carbonate nanorods in the biomimetic anodic aluminum oxide template

“…Amino acids influence the polymorphism of CaCO 3 through their chemical functional groups. For example, amino acids such as Ser [15], His [16], Gly [17,18], and others are applied as additives during CaCO 3 mineralization, resulting in stabilization of various polymorphisms [19][20][21]. The hydrophilicity and electrical charge of peptides also influences the growth rate of CaCO 3 [22].…”

“…The hydrophilicity and electrical charge of peptides also influences the growth rate of CaCO 3 [22]. Occasionally the least thermodynamically stable polymorph, vaterite, was synthesized and stabilized with the aid of amino acids [17,21]. Amino acids are supposed to be adsorbed on crystal growth surfaces while changing local concentrations of Ca 2 + ions.…”

Crystal growth of calcium carbonate with various morphologies in different amino acid systems

“…Manoli et al have studied the kinetics of vaterite crystallization on calcite in the presence of alanine, glycine, lysine, as well as on lysine, glutamic acid, polyglycine, polytyrosine and polymethionine [10,11]. Kai et al indicated that the noncharged polar amino acids and those of the acidic ones in CaCO 3 precipitates tend to stabilize the vaterite phase, and the vaterite content in CaCO 3 precipitates is correlated to the concentration of amino acids in the precipitates [12]. Tong et al have investigated L-aspartic acid controlling the crystal phase, shape, size and aggregation of CaCO 3 [13].…”

Effect of trace lanthanum ion on dissolution and crystal growth of calcium carbonate

“…Many studies have reported the effect of inorganic impurity on dissolution and crystal growth of calcium carbonate [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] and of organic impurities in order to understand biomineralization of shells, bones, and pearls, etc. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Most of these works studied materials that are abundant in natural environments such as in ocean, crust, organisms, etc.…”

“…For example, aragonite is stabilized by the addition of 400 mg/l magnesium ion into a supersaturated solution of calcium carbonate [5]. Vaterite is stabilized with 2 mM aspartic acid or 10 mM asparagines [17]. In the presence of 50 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), a mixture of calcite and aragonite are precipitated [13].…”