Stabilization of aragonite on thiol-modified gold surfaces: effect of temperature

Abstract

While the slow crystallization of calcium carbonate at 22 °C on self-assembled ω-substituted alkylthiol surfaces yields in most cases, depending on the surface, the vaterite and calcite modifications, elevating the temperature to 45 °C allows the stabilization of the aragonite modification as well.

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