Modification of calcium carbonate from blue mussel shells with copper oxide nanoparticles

2025/01/01 by Sachel Christian-Robinson, Fanqi Kong, Brad Easton +1 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · #Aragonite #Biology #Calcium #Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition #Calcium carbonate #Carbonate #Chemical engineering #Chemistry #Copper #Copper oxide #Engineering #Fishery #Inorganic chemistry #Materials science #Metallurgy #Mussel #Nanoparticle #Nanotechnology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5su00188a

published in RSC Sustainability 3(7), 3009-3018 (Royal Society of Chemistry)

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

Bio-derived calcium carbonate, calcite nanocrystals from mussel shells, can be decorated with copper oxide nanoparticles using green methods.

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• New work from Sachel Christian-Robinson, Fran Kerton and colleagues in RSC Sustainability exploring the modification of calcium carbonate from blue mussel shells with copper oxide nanoparticles 👀👇 [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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