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CrystEngComm, 2007, 9, 1153 - 1155, DOI: 10.1039/b709068d
Porous calcite single crystals grown from a hydrogel medium
Hanying Li and Lara A. Estroff
This paper describes the internal structure of calcite (CaCO3) crystals grown in an agarose hydrogel and demonstrates that the gel-grown calcite crystals, like biogenic calcite crystals, incorporate the organic matrix, resulting in internal structures with pores on the order of 100's of nanometers.
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