Mineralization of CaCO₃ in the presence of egg white lysozyme

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-118386
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.11838

Voinescu, Alina E. ; Touraud, Didier ; Lecker, Alois ; Pfitzner, Arno

; Ninham, Barry W.

; Kunz, Werner

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Abstract

The influence of egg white lysozyme on the size, shape, crystallography, and chemical composition of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) particles obtained from aqueous CaCl2-dimethyl carbonate (DMC)-NaOH solutions was studied. At the onset of precipitation, the presence of lysozyme led to much smaller particles (50-400 nm spherical amorphous lysozyme-calcium carbonate particles (Ly-ACC)) than ...