Microemulsion-based synthesis of stacked calcium carbonate (calcite) superstructures.
Synthesis of calcium carbonate in water-in-oil microemulsions results in the spontaneous formation of stacked superstructures of 20 nm-thick pseudo-hexagonal calcite plates in crystallographic register.
Viravaidya
Chulanapa
C
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BS8 1TS.
Li
Mei
M
Mann
Stephen
S