Hard corals grow by generating calcium carbonate (CaCO3) from seawater and adding it to their skeletons, where it crystallizes. This process -- and coral survival -- are threatened by ocean ...
Research associate professor Xiaobing Hu and Professor Vinayak Dravid used atomic resolution imaging technique to determine the accurate structural features of of vaterite CaCO3, a metastable form of ...
Indirect carbonation is an attractive way of using paper sludge ash, an industrial by-product, to capture atmospheric CO2­ while obtaining calcium carbonate, which is useful in several industries­. In ...