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Effect of silk sericin on morphology and structure of calcium carbonate crystal

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In this paper, silk sericin was employed to regulate the mineralization of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). CaCO3 composite particles were prepared by the precipitation reaction of sodium carbonate with calcium chloride solution in the presence of silk sericin. The as-prepared samples were collected at different reaction time to study the crystallization process of CaCO3 by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results showed that silk sericin significantly affected the morphology and crystallographic polymorph of CaCO3. With increasing the reaction time, the crystal phase of CaCO3 transferred from calcite dominated to vaterite dominated mixtures, while the morphology of CaCO3 changed from disk-like calcite crystal to spherical vaterite crystal. These studies showed the potential of silk sericin used as a template molecule to control the growth of inorganic crystal.

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  1. **nyuan Institute of Medicine and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Rui-Bo Zhao, Hua-Feng Han, Ze-Hao Li & **ang-Dong Kong

  2. College of Materials and Textile, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Shao Ding & **ang-Dong Kong

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Zhao, RB., Han, HF., Ding, S. et al. Effect of silk sericin on morphology and structure of calcium carbonate crystal. Front. Mater. Sci. 7, 177–183 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-013-0202-z

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