Calcium carbonate: controlled synthesis, surface functionalization, and nanostructured materials
Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) is an important inorganic mineral in biological and geological systems. Traditionally, it is widely used in plastics, papermaking, ink, building materials, textiles, cosmetics, and food. Over the last decade, there has been rapid development in the controlled synthesis an...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 51; no. 18; pp. 7883 - 7943 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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London
Royal Society of Chemistry
20.09.2022
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| Summary: | Calcium carbonate (CaCO
3
) is an important inorganic mineral in biological and geological systems. Traditionally, it is widely used in plastics, papermaking, ink, building materials, textiles, cosmetics, and food. Over the last decade, there has been rapid development in the controlled synthesis and surface modification of CaCO
3
, the stabilization of amorphous CaCO
3
(ACC), and CaCO
3
-based nanostructured materials. In this review, the controlled synthesis of CaCO
3
is first examined, including Ca
2+
-CO
3
2−
systems, solid-liquid-gas carbonation, water-in-oil reverse emulsions, and biomineralization. Advancing insights into the nucleation and crystallization of CaCO
3
have led to the development of efficient routes towards the controlled synthesis of CaCO
3
with specific sizes, morphologies, and polymorphs. Recently-developed surface modification methods of CaCO
3
include organic and inorganic modifications, as well as intensified surface reactions. The resultant CaCO
3
can then be further engineered
via
template-induced biomineralization and layer-by-layer assembly into porous, hollow, or core-shell organicinorganic nanocomposites. The introduction of CaCO
3
into nanostructured materials has led to a significant improvement in the mechanical, optical, magnetic, and catalytic properties of such materials, with the resultant CaCO
3
-based nanostructured materials showing great potential for use in biomaterials and biomedicine, environmental remediation, and energy production and storage. The influences that the preparation conditions and additives have on ACC preparation and stabilization are also discussed. Studies indicate that ACC can be used to construct environmentally-friendly hybrid films, supramolecular hydrogels, and drug vehicles. Finally, the existing challenges and future directions of the controlled synthesis and functionalization of CaCO
3
and its expanding applications are highlighted.
Various new strategies have been recently developed to produce CaCO
3
micro-/nanoparticles with controlled size, morphology, polymorphism and crystallinity, which are then surface modified, functionalized and hierarchically assembled to yield medical, environmental, and energy materials. |
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| Bibliography: | Yu Qin Niu is currently a postgraduate at Research Group for Advanced Materials & Sustainable Catalysis (AMSC), College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), Hangzhou, China. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Qingdao University of Science and Technology. Her research presently focuses on organic-inorganic mineral bio-composites under the supervision of Prof. Chun Hui ZHOU. She has coauthored scientific papers in respected peer-reviewed international journals. Damir Kralj is a senior scientist and a head of the Laboratory for Precipitation Processes, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. He studied Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Zagreb and completed his PhD in 1990. He held a research fellowship at the University of Copenhagen (Arne E. Nielsen) and a postdoc fellowship at the TU Delft (Gerda van Rosmalen). His research focus is on the kinetics and mechanisms of precipitation of slightly soluble ionic salts (calcium carbonates, oxalates, phosphates), metastable and precursor phases, interfacial interactions between mineral surfaces and dissolved species, biomineralization, pathological mineralization and industrial crystallization. Dr Chun Hui ZHOU, born and brought up in Miaoqian, Qingyang, Anhui, is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Leader of Research Group for Advanced Materials and Sustainable Catalysis (AMSC), Zhejiang University of Technology. He is Director of Qing Yang Institute for Industrial Minerals. He acts as AIPEA Councilor (2017-) and Vice President (2022-). He also serves as Principal Editor of Clay Minerals, Associate Editor of Clays and Clay Minerals, and Editorial Member of Applied Clay Science, Journal of Porous Materials and Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry. He worked as a visiting academic at the University of Queensland (2006-2007) and as a visiting professor at the University of Western Australia (2010). His R&D centers on clay minerals, limestone and dolomite and related functional materials as well as catalysts for converting biochemicals and biomass, He teaches Catalysis, Materials Science and Engineering, and Scientific Literacy. Prof. Giuseppe FALINI, PhD in Chemistry, is full professor in chemistry at the University of Bologna. Currently, his research activities are addressed to the design and preparation of innovative materials from waste marine biominerals and biopolymers and to the study of the biomineralization process in corals and echinoderms and under environmental stresses. He is co-author of about 230 scientific publications in international journals (two in Science). He also wrote 3 book chapters and is co-inventor of 3 patents. He has been awarded of grants from national institutions, companies and European Community (ERC Adv). Jia Hui Liu is currently a PhD candidate at Research Group for Advanced Materials & Sustainable Catalysis (AMSC), College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), Hangzhou, China and under the supervision of Prof. Chun Hui Zhou. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Applied Chemistry from Anhui Jianzhu University. Her research presently focuses on colloid and surface chemistry of carbonate and clay minerals, and related hydrogels and nanostructured functional composites and their applications in healthcare, adsorption and catalysis. She has authored and coauthored several scientific papers in respected peer-reviewed international journals. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1cs00519g |