ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Unraveling the structural ordering of water in amorphous calcium carbonate using neutron pdf-analysis

Abstract: Calcium carbonates make up some of the most abundant minerals in the world. They are of great importance in geology and in the field of biomaterials as well as having several industrial applications. Despite the high interest, detailed structural information on several calcium carbonates still does not exist. This is especially true for amorphous calcium carbonate, a kinetically stabilized intermediate, also in biological mineralization. Therefore, solving the structure of ACC would increase our understanding of the formation of complex hierarchical biomaterials. Traditionally this has been attempted with MAS-NMR, EXAFS, RAMAN and many other techniques. However, this only gives information on the closest coordination sphere. By performing Neutron PDF on standardized ACC we intent to characterize the structure of ACC with emphasis on the structure of water inside the ACC.

Public release date: 12 December 2018

Principal Investigator: Dr Wouter Habraken
Experimenter: Dr Luca Bertinetti
Local Contact: Dr Silvia Imberti
Experimenter: Mr Anders Jensen

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.67772906

Parent DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1520182

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1520182

Part Number: 1

Date of Experiment: 08 December 2015

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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