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The effect of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) on the mineralization of CaCO3 was studied by varying the molecular weights (PAA1.2k, Mw=1200; PAA25k, Mw=25000; PAA250k, Mw=250000) as well as by changing the addition time of the sodium salts of PAA (PAA-Na) to an aqueous solution of calcium carbonate. The precipitation of CaCO3 was carried out by a double jet method. Stable vaterite crystals were successfully obtained by delaying the addition of all the sodium salts of PAA from 1 to 60 min, and the resulting particles were formed by a spherulitic growth mechanism. The vaterite particles modified with PAA25k-Na and PAA250k-Na showed higher stability than the ones stabilized by PAA1.2k-Na in an aqueous solution. However, in the initial presence of PAA-Na, amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), vaterite or calcite were induced under various conditions. It is interesting to find that the ACC product induced by PAA1.2k-Na was more stable than that induced by PAA25k-Na in an aqueous solution as well as in a dry state. It was also found that the CaCO3 particles formed through the nano-aggregation mechanism might be induced by the strong inhibiting effects of PAA-Na, while the spherulitic growth mechanism might be due to the insufficient inhibiting efficiency for the crystallization. These results suggest that the selective interaction of PAA-Na with CaCO3 at different stages as well as the inhibiting strength varied with the chain lengths of PAA-Na could play an important role for the controlling of the crystal nucleation and growth during the crystallization process.
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Huang, SC., Naka, K. & Chujo, Y. Effect of Molecular Weights of Poly(acrylic acid) on Crystallization of Calcium Carbonate by the Delayed Addition Method. Polym J 40, 154–162 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.PJ2007162
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