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Urease‐Catalyzed Carbonate Precipitation inside the Restricted Volume of Polyelectrolyte Capsules

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Abstract A new biomimetic approach for performing CaCO 3 synthesis exclusively inside micron‐sized polyelectrolyte capsules, based on the fermentative formation of a precipitative agent (CO 3 2− anion) by urease‐catalyzed urea hydrolysis, was developed. Precipitated CaCO 3 completely fills the interior capsule volume and has a metastable vaterite phase. magnified image

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