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Additives: Their Influence on the Humidity- and Pressure-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous CaCO3

Esther Amstad, Camelia Borca, Huachuan Du, Mathias Steinacher, Alan Böhlen, Clémence Courrégelongue

Nature possesses a unique control over the formation of CaCO3 crystals that imparts fascinating mechanical properties to many CaCO3-based biomaterials. This high level of control is, at least in part, achieved through the use of certain soluble additives t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Tuning the Incorporation of Magnesium into Calcite during Its Crystallization from Additive-Free Aqueous Solution

Esther Amstad, Camelia Borca, Huachuan Du

Under ambient conditions, marine organisms are able to synthesize a variety of functional materials, ranging from eye lenses to protective shells through the meticulous control over magnesium incorporation into calcite during its crystallization. The mecha ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Amorphous CaCO3: Influence of the Formation Time on Its Degree of Hydration and Stability

Francesco Stellacci, Huachuan Du, Esther Amstad, Camelia Borca, Mathias Steinacher, Anna Murello

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is one of the most abundant biominerals that is prevalent in rocks and often used as a structural material in marine animals. Many of these natural CaCO3-based materials display excellent mechanical properties that are difficult t ...

2018

Femtosecond X-ray absorption study of electron localization in photoexcited anatase TiO2

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Edoardo Baldini, Jochen Rittmann, Camelia Borca, Fabio Giacomo Santomauro, Mahsa Silatani, Patric Zimmermann

Transition metal oxides are among the most promising solar materials, whose properties rely on the generation, transport and trapping of charge carriers (electrons and holes). Identifying the latter's dynamics at room temperature requires tools that combin ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

NO binding kinetics in myoglobin investigated by picosecond Fe K-edge absorption spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold, Camelia Borca, Frederico Alves Lima, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Jochen Rittmann, Mahsa Silatani

Diatomic ligands in hemoproteins and the way they bind to the active center are central to the protein's function. Using picosecond Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we probe the NO-heme recombination kinetics with direct sensitivity to the Fe-NO bi ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Characterizing the Structure and Defect Concentration of ZnO Nanoparticles in a Colloidal Solution

Majed Chergui, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold, Camelia Borca, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Jochen Rittmann

The structure and defect concentration of colloidal solutions of ZnO nanoparticles, synthesized by a sol gel procedure (SG-NP), as well as commercially available ZnO nanoparticles (SA-NP) are investigated by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, transmission ele ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

{110} Slip with {112} slip traces in bcc Tungsten

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem, Camelia Borca, Cécile Renée Maria Marichal

While propagation of dislocations in body centered cubic metals at low temperature is understood in terms of elementary steps on {110} planes, slip traces correspond often with other crystallographic or non-crystallographic planes. In the past, characteriz ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Beam-induced oxidation of monomeric U(IV) species

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Benjamin Uster, Camelia Borca, Daniel Scott Alessi

Uranium L-III-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy is often used to probe the oxidation state and coordination of uranium in environmental samples, and micrometre-sized beams can be used to spatially map the distribution of uranium relative to other elements ...

International Union of Crystallography2013

Slip in directionally solidified Mo-alloy micropillars-Part II: Pillars containing defects

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem, Camelia Borca

In situ Laue analysis during microcompression is carried out on Mo-alloy pillars containing defects due to focused ion beam milling or pre-strain. Independently of how the defects are introduced, if the diffraction peaks are streaked prior to deformation, ...

2012

Slip in directionally solidified Mo-alloy micropillars - Part I: Nominally dislocation-free pillars

Cécile Hébert, Helena Van Swygenhoven, Emad Oveisi, Barbora Bártová, Steven Van Petegem, Camelia Borca, Cécile Renée Maria Marichal

In situ Laue analysis during microcompression reveals plasticity in [0 0 1]-oriented, directionally solidified Mo alloy pillars to start with slip on the {1 1 2} < 1 1 1 > system having the highest Schmid factor followed by slip on the (1 1 0) plane contai ...

Elsevier2012