Mimetic biomineralization matrix using bacterial cellulose hydrogel and egg white to prepare various morphologies of CaCO3

Xun Liu; Yong Zhou; Chonghua Pei

doi:10.1039/C8CE00988K

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Mimetic biomineralization matrix using bacterial cellulose hydrogel and egg white to prepare various morphologies of CaCO₃†

Xun Liu,

*^a Yong Zhou

^b and Chonghua Pei*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
E-mail: liuxun@swust.edu.cn (X. Liu), peichonghua@swust.edu.cn (C. Pei)

^b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Lab of Solid State Microstructure, ERERC, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

Abstract

An original bidirectional infiltration method exploiting the co-actions of bacterial cellulose hydrogel and egg white proteins serves to simulate a natural biomineralization matrix. Different egg white concentrations lead to various CaCO₃ morphologies, which are determined by multiple factors, including the diffusion rate, soluble organic matrix concentration, particle size, surface energy and crystalline composition.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CE00988K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 14 Jun 2018
Accepted: 09 Jul 2018
First published: 14 Jul 2018

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CrystEngComm, 2018,20, 4536-4540

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Mimetic biomineralization matrix using bacterial cellulose hydrogel and egg white to prepare various morphologies of CaCO₃

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