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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Impact of Mg

Lucas Kuhrts, Hadar Shaked, Johanna Sklar, Elena Prudnikov, Sylvain Prévost, Gouranga Manna, Michael Sztucki, Alexander Katsman, Boaz Pokroy

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Control Strategies in Guanine Biocrystallization.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Lucas KuhrtsDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2896-4429
Hadar ShakedDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-2464-7525
Johanna SklarDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0009-0003-5952-9726
Elena PrudnikovDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-6743-1823
Sylvain PrévostInstitut Laue-Langevin, Large Scale Structures, Grenoble 38042, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6008-1987
Gouranga MannaEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble 38043, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3054-9024
Michael SztuckiEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble 38043, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5314-9402
Alexander KatsmanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0987-8904
Boaz PokroyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0480-7250

Funding

Minerva Foundation (Minerva Stiftung) NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crystallization by amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) particle attachment (CPA) is a prevalent biomineralization mechanism among calcifying organisms. A narrow, controlled size distribution of ACC nanoparticles is essential for macroscopic crystal formation via CPA. Using in situ synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering, we demonstrate that synthetic magnesium-stabilized ACC (Mg-ACC) nanoparticles form with an exceptionally narrow size distribution near the spinodal line during liquid-liquid phase separation. We monitored ACC formation kinetics at pH 8.4 to 8.9 and Mg[Formula: see text] contents of 50 to 80%, observing a 2-order magnitude rise in nucleation kinetics for a 0.1 pH increase and a 6-order magnitude rise for a 10% Mg[Formula: see text] decrease. Within the binodal region, faster nucleation kinetics result in more monodisperse particles, narrowing the particle size distribution by factors of 2 for a pH increase of merely 0.1 and by a factor of 3 for a 10% Mg[Formula: see text] decrease. While the influence of Mg[Formula: see text] on calcite biomineralization is well studied, its effect on Mg-ACC formation and particle size distribution-an essential parameter in CPA-based biomineralization pathways-remained unexplored. These findings highlight the delicate interplay of pH and Mg[Formula: see text] in controlling the kinetics and thermodynamics of Mg-ACC formation, significantly impacting particle size distribution.

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amorphous calcium carbonatebiomineralizationformation mechanismin situ SAXSocean acidification

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PMID40343994
PMCPMC12088446

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