Nanoscale Effects of Strontium on Calcite Growth: A Baseline for Understanding Biomineralization in the Absence of Vital Effects
This study uses in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM) to directly observe the atomic scale effects of Sr on the monomolecular layer growth of abiotic calcite. These insights are coupled with quantitative measurements of the kinetics and thermodynamics of growth to determine the direction-specific ef...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32979 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05192003-132658/ |