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

• Main Author: Denis Gebauer (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Environmental economics; amorphous intermediates; additive-controlled mineralization; mineral poly(a)morphism; formation mechanisms of biominerals; pre-nucleation clusters; mineral nucleation and growth; mechanims of bio-inspired mineralization; in situ analyses of the early stages of mineralization; non-classical crystallization
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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 ch...