Nanostructured Surfaces Enhance Nucleation Rate of Calcium Carbonate.

ABSTRACT: Nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate on surfaces is of broad importance in nature and technology, being essential to the calcification of organisms, while negatively impacting energy conversion through crystallization fouling, also called scale formation. Previous work studied how confinements, surface energies, and functionalizations affect nucleation and polymorph formation, with surface-water interactions and ion mobility playing important roles. However, the influence of surface nanostructures with nanocurvature-through pit and bump morphologies-on scale formation is unknown, limiting the development of scalephobic surfaces. Here, it is shown that nanoengineered surfaces enhance the nucleation rate by orders of magnitude, despite expected inhibition through effects like induced l

SUBMITTER: Armstrong T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579968 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature