Modulating Nucleation by Kosmotropes and Chaotropes: Testing the Waters

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer302
FachzeitschriftCRYSTALS
Jahrgang7
Ausgabenummer10
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Okt. 2017
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Abstract

Water is a fundamental solvent sustaining life, key to the conformations and equilibria associated with solute species. Emerging studies on nucleation and crystallization phenomena reveal that the dynamics of hydration associated with mineral precursors are critical in determining material formation and growth. With certain small molecules affecting the hydration and conformational stability of co-solutes, this study systematically explores the effects of these chaotropes and kosmotropes as well as certain sugar enantiomers on the early stages of calcium carbonate formation. These small molecules appear to modulate mineral nucleation in a class-dependent manner. The observed effects are finite in comparison to the established, strong interactions between charged polymers and intermediate mineral forms. Thus, perturbations to hydration dynamics of ion clusters by co-solute species can affect nucleation phenomena in a discernable manner.

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Modulating Nucleation by Kosmotropes and Chaotropes: Testing the Waters. / Rao, Ashit; Gebauer, Denis; Cölfen, Helmut.
in: CRYSTALS, Jahrgang 7, Nr. 10, 302, 10.2017.

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Rao A, Gebauer D, Cölfen H. Modulating Nucleation by Kosmotropes and Chaotropes: Testing the Waters. CRYSTALS. 2017 Okt;7(10):302. doi: 10.3390/cryst7100302
Rao, Ashit ; Gebauer, Denis ; Cölfen, Helmut. / Modulating Nucleation by Kosmotropes and Chaotropes: Testing the Waters. in: CRYSTALS. 2017 ; Jahrgang 7, Nr. 10.
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