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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 128, 期 22, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2940322
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- EPSRC [EP/F010834/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S80127/01, EP/F010834/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We introduce a metadynamics based scheme for computing the free energy of nanoparticles as a function of their crystalline order. The method is applied to small nanoparticles of the biomineral calcium carbonate to determine the preferred structure during early stages of crystal growth. For particles 2 nm in diameter, we establish a large energetic preference for amorphous particle morphologies. Particles with partial crystalline order consistent with vaterite are also observed with substantially lower probability. The absence of the stable calcite phase and stability of the amorphous state support recent conjectures that calcite formation starts via the deposition of amorphous calcium carbonate. (C) 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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