Nucleation of Minerals: Precursors, Intermediates and Their Use in Materials Chemistry

Nucleation of Minerals: Precursors, Intermediates and Their Use in Materials Chemistry

Environmental Sciences

Nucleation is the key event in mineralisation, but a general molecular understanding of phase separation mechanisms is still missing, despite more than 100 years of research in this field. In recent years, many studies have highlighted the occurrence of precursors and intermediates, which seem to challenge the assumptions underlying classical theories of nucleation and growth. This is especially true for the field of biomineralisation, where bio-inspired strategies take advantage of the special properties of the precursors and intermediates for the generation of advanced materials. All of this has led to the development of "non-classical" frameworks, which, however, often lack quantitative expressions for the evaluation and prediction of phase separation, growth and ripening processes, and are under considerable debate.

Denis Gebauer (Ed.)

https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/695

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

2018

Baihaqi

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