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ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 909-915Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2011.12.002
Keywords
Ultrasonic irradiation; Calcium carbonate; Calcite; Vaterite; Bacterial cellulose
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- European Social Fund [POSDRU/89/1.5/S/54785]
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The effect of ultrasonic irradiation (40 kHz) on the calcium carbonate deposition on bacterial cellulose membranes was investigated using calcium chloride (CaCl2) and sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) as starting reactants. The composite materials containing bacterial cellulose-calcium carbonate were characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and color measurements. The polymorphs of calcium carbonate that were deposited on bacterial cellulose membranes in the presence or in the absence of ultrasonic irradiation were calcite and vaterite. The morphology of the obtained crystals was influenced by the concentration of starting solutions and by the presence of ultrasonic irradiation. In the presence of ultrasonic irradiation the obtained crystals were bigger and in a larger variety of shapes than in the absence of ultrasounds: from cubes of calcite to spherical and flower-like vaterite particles. Bacterial cellulose could be a good matrix for obtaining different types of calcium carbonate crystals. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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