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ACC and Vaterite as Intermediates in the Solution-Based Crystallization of CaCO3

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Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) and vaterite are not very common in abiotic systems, but they play a very significant role in biomineralization processes and are key in the global carbon cycle. Despite their importance, many questions about the factors affecting the mechanisms of formation and stabilization during biomineralization processes remain unanswered, because most of the information so far is obtained from experimental synthesis in abiotic conditions. In recent years, it has been shown that ACC and vaterite have complex structures and chemistries. Their formation and stability are drastically affected by pH, the presence of (in)organics (e.g., Mg2+, SO4 2−, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, citric acid, etc.), temperature, and supersaturation. Changes in any of these variables affect the lifetime of ACC and the crystallization rates and pathways to vaterite or other CaCO3 polymorphs. In addition, the morphologies, composition, sizes, and properties of ACC and vaterite are highly affected. This chapter provides a perspective on the current state-of-the-art research on the formation and crystallization mechanisms of ACC to vaterite.

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Acknowledgments

J.D. Rodriguez-Blanco would like to acknowledge the EU-funded NanoCArB Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) under contract PIEF-GA-2013-624016. K.K. Sand is grateful for funding from the Danish Council for Independent Research on their Individual Post Docs (0602-02915B) and Sapere Aude program (0602-02654B) and support from the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated by Battelle for the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830.

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  1. Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco

  2. NanoScience Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco & Karina K. Sand

  3. Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, WA, USA

    Karina K. Sand

  4. German Research Center for Geosciences, GFZ, Interface Geochemistry Section, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Liane G. Benning

  5. Department of Earth Sciences, Free University of Berlin, 12249, Berlin, Germany

    Liane G. Benning

  6. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Liane G. Benning

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Rodriguez-Blanco, J.D., Sand, K.K., Benning, L.G. (2017). ACC and Vaterite as Intermediates in the Solution-Based Crystallization of CaCO3 . In: Van Driessche, A., Kellermeier, M., Benning, L., Gebauer, D. (eds) New Perspectives on Mineral Nucleation and Growth. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45669-0_5

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