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Effect of Phosphatidylcholine and Glycylglycine on Polymorph and Surface Microstructure of Calcium Carbonate

NI Jie   

  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • Received:2007-12-20 Revised:2007-12-20 Online:2007-12-20 Published:2007-12-20

Abstract: Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is one of the basic components of the biomembrane, which plays important roles in the biomineralization. As a double-hydrophilic biomacromolecule, PC can form liposomes in solution and lipid membrane layer at the interface of solution/air. In this paper, using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS), we systematically investigated mineralization of calcium carbonate in the presence of PC and/or glycylglycine by a biomimetic mineralization approach. As a result, we found that phosphatidylcholine and glycylglycine obviously have effects on surface microstructure of calcium carbonate,and that the electrostatic force interaction between the PC molecules at the interface of solution/air and the dissolved glycylglycine synergically inhibits mineralization of calcium carbonate minerals.