Guest PhD student from the University of Granada, Spain
Sarah Bonilla Correa is a PhD candidate in Earth Science at the University of Granada, Spain. Her research focuses on understanding the crystallization processes of amorphous calcium carbonates (ACC) and amorphous magnesium carbonates (AMC) in biomineralization and geological processes
Personal information: Sarah Bonilla Correa is a PhD candidate in Earth Science at the University of Granada, Spain. Her research focuses on understanding the crystallization processes of amorphous calcium carbonates (ACC) and amorphous magnesium carbonates (AMC) in biomineralization and geological processes. Her work aims to understand how isotopic compositions and the concentrations of minor and trace elements change during these transformations. across crystallization kinetics to analyze factors influencing their stability, especially the role of additives, dehydration, and physicochemical parameters such as temperature, relative humidity, process rate, and pH. Following this, she characterizes the process through techniques such as FTIR, XRD, Raman, TGA, SEM, EDX, TEM, micro-CT, and AFM.
Research stays: The research at the University of Konstanz also focuses on the analysis of several samples of amorphous calcium and/or magnesium carbonates synthesized under different experimental conditions, including variations in temperature, pH, and calcium: magnesium ratios. They were analyzed by FTIR, SEM, and MAS-NMR. To understand the proto-structure of amorphous calcium magnesium carbonate precursors.
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