Journal of Inorganic Materials ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (7): 681-690.DOI: 10.15541/jim20160484

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Progress in Tuning of Metastable Vaterite Calcium Carbonate

JIANG Jiu-Xin1,2, WU Yue1, HE Yao1, GAO Song1, ZHANG Chen1, SHEN Tong3, LIU Jia-Ning3,4   

  1. (1. Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Light-Weight Materials and Processing, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China; 2. School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China; 3. School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044; 4. Institut fur Pharmazeutische Technologie, Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 1, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany)
  • Received:2016-08-29 Revised:2016-10-29 Published:2017-07-20 Online:2017-06-23
  • About author:JIANG Jiu-Xin. E-mail: jiuxinjiang@hotmail.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (11174075);Science and Technology Research Program of Educational Commission, Hubei Province of China (D20151405);Open Foundation of Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Light-weight Materials and Processing, Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry (201611A02);Initial Funding of Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (S8113127001)

Abstract:

Vaterite has broad application prospects in the field of daily necessities and biomedical science because of its unique mechanical, physical and chemical properties. However, vaterite is the thermodynamically least stable phase in the three anhydrous crystalline phases of calcium carbonate, and such thermal metastability often transforms it into more stable aragonite or calcite phases, so how to inhibit the phase transformation of vaterite is always a hot topic in the study of calcium carbonate. In this paper, structure, properties, application, and phase transformation from vaterite to aragonite and/or calcite are briefly introduced. Particularly, based on the three basic routes of synthesis of calcium carbonate, some traditional methods, such as carbonization, double decomposition, microemulsion, solvothermal method, and some latest progress, e.g. self-assembly of monolayer, biomimetic synthesis and thermal decomposition methods of tuning and preparation on vaterite are then summarized. Moreover, some analysis on the mechanism of formation and stabilization of vaterite by some additives are given. The aim of this review is to provide a more systematic theoretical and practical guidance to fabrication vaterite phase of calcium carbonate.

Key words: vaterite, calcium carbonate, metastable, tuning, review

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