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The growth mechanism of apatite nanocrystals assisted by citrate: relevance to bone biomineralization

Michele Iafisco, Gloria B. Ramírez‐Rodríguez, Yuriy Sakhno, Anna Tampieri, Gianmario Martra, Jaime Gómez‐Morales, José Manuel Delgado‐López

CrystEngComm · 2014 · 70 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Citrate plays a dual role in the apatite crystallization: driving a growth pathway <italic>via</italic> an amorphous precursor and controlling the nanocrystal size by non-classical oriented aggregation.

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