Unlocking the mysterious polytypic features within vaterite CaCO3

Abstract Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), the most abundant biogenic mineral on earth, plays a crucial role in various fields such as hydrosphere, biosphere, and climate regulation. Of the four polymorphs, calcite, aragonite, vaterite, and amorphous CaCO3, vaterite is the most enigmatic one due to an ongo...

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Main Authors: Xingyuan San, Junwei Hu, Mingyi Chen, Haiyang Niu, Paul J. M. Smeets, Christos D. Malliakas, Jie Deng, Kunmo Koo, Roberto dos Reis, Vinayak P. Dravid, Xiaobing Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43625-0