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Fig. 6.19
Schematic illustrations of the transition process from ACC to hierarchical crystals.
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dramatically needed to find a reasonable way to prepare new composite materials
using ACC or their transformed crystalline calcium carbonate crystals as one
component, making ACC more useful for practical applications.
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the funding support from the National Basic Research
Program of China (Grant 2010CB934700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(Grants 91022032, 50732006), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant KJZDEW-M01-1), and
International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (Grant 2010DFA41170), the Principle Investigator Award by the National Synchrotron
Radiation Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China.
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