Dynamic Control of Mineralisation

Project Information

DYNAMIN

Grant agreement ID: 788968

DOI

10.3030/788968

Project closed

EC signature date 23 April 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 632 375,00

EU contribution

€ 2 632 375,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Dynamic Crystallization Pathways of Polymorphic Pharmaceuticals Revealed in Segmented Flow with Inline Powder X-ray Diffraction

Author(s): Mark A. Levenstein, Lois Wayment, C. Daniel Scott, Ruth Lunt, Pierre-Baptiste Flandrin, Sarah J. Day, Chiu C. Tang, Chick C. Wilson, Fiona C. Meldrum, Nikil Kapur, Karen Robertson
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, Issue 92/11, 2020, Page(s) 7754-7761, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00860

Guanine Crystal Formation at Physiological pH

Author(s): Bidisha Tah Roy, Lukas Jorin Hasselt, Ross Young, Zijiang Yang, Jeanine Williams, Johanna M. Galloway, Alex Heyam, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Crystal Growth & Design, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 4316-4324, ISSN 1528-7483
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5c00205

Multimodal nanoparticle analysis enabled by a polymer electrolyte nanopore combined with nanoimpact electrochemistry

Author(s): Eugene Gyasi Agyemang, Samuel Confederat, Gayathri Mohanan, Mahnaz Azimzadeh Sani, Chalmers Chau, Dylan Charnock, Christoph Wälti, Kristina Tschulik, Martin Andrew Edwards, Paolo Actis
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 257, 2025, Page(s) 303-315, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4fd00143e

Nanopore fingerprinting of supramolecular DNA nanostructures

Author(s): Samuel Confederat, Ilaria Sandei, Gayathri Mohanan, Christoph Wälti, Paolo Actis
Published in: Biophysical Journal, Issue 121, 2025, Page(s) 4882-4891, ISSN 0006-3495
Publisher: Biophysical Society
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.08.020

Evaluation of microflow configurations for scale inhibition and serial X-ray diffraction analysis of crystallization processes

Author(s): Mark A. Levenstein, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Liam Hunter, Clara Anduix-Canto, Carlos González Niño, Sarah J. Day, Shunbo Li, William J. Marchant, Phillip A. Lee, Chiu C. Tang, Manfred Burghammer, Fiona C. Meldrum, Nikil Kapur
Published in: Lab on a Chip, Issue 20/16, 2020, Page(s) 2954-2964, ISSN 1473-0197
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0lc00239a

Evaluation of Correlated Studies Using Liquid Cell- and Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy: Hydration of Calcium Sulfate and the Phase Transformation Pathways of Bassanite to Gypsum

Author(s): M. Ilett, H. M. Freeman, Z. Aslam, J. M. Galloway, D. P. Klebl, S. P. Muench, I. J. McPherson, O. Cespedes, Y-Y. Kim, F. C. Meldrum, S. R. Yeandel, C. L. Freeman, J. H. Harding, R. M. D. Brydson
Published in: Journal of Microscopy, Issue 00222720, 2022, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0022-2720
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.13102

An innovative data processing method for studying nanoparticle formation in droplet microfluidics using X-rays scattering

Author(s): Dimitri Radajewski, Liam Hunter, Xuefeng He, Ouassef Nahi, Johanna M. Galloway, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Lab on a Chip, 2021, ISSN 1473-0197
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1lc00545f

Polyamines Promote Aragonite Nucleation and Generate Biomimetic Structures.

Author(s): Ouassef Nahi; Alexander N. Kulak; Shuheng Zhang; Xuefeng He; Zabeada Aslam; Martha A. Ilett; Ian J. Ford; Robert Darkins; Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Advanced Science, 2023, Page(s) 2203759, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202203759

Tuning higher order structure in colloidal fluids

Author(s): Xiaoyue Wu, Katherine Skipper, Yushi Yang, Fergus J. Moore, Fiona C. Meldrum, C. Patrick Royall
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 2787-2802, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00889h

Local Heating Transforms Amorphous Calcium Carbonate to Single Crystals with Defined Morphologies

Author(s): Shuheng Zhang, Ouassef Nahi, Xuefeng He, Li Chen, Zabeada Aslam, Nikil Kapur, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 16163028, 2022, Page(s) 2207019, ISSN 1616-3028
Publisher: wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202207019

Crystallization in Confinement

Author(s): Fiona C. Meldrum, Cedrick O'Shaughnessy
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 32/31, 2020, Page(s) 2001068, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202001068

Flow-Xl: a new facility for the analysis of crystallization in flow systems

Author(s): T. D. Turner, C. O'Shaughnessy, X. He, M. A. Levenstein, L. Hunter, J. Wojciechowski, H. Bristowe, R. Stone, C. C. Wilson, A. Florence, K. Robertson, N. Kapur, F. C. Meldrum
Published in: Journal of Applied Crystallography, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 1299-1310, ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
DOI: 10.1107/s1600576724006113

Serial small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering with laboratory sources

Author(s): Mark A. Levenstein, Karen Robertson, Thomas D. Turner, Liam Hunter, Cate O'Brien, Cedrick O'Shaughnessy, Alexander N. Kulak, Pierre Le Magueres, Jakub Wojciechowski, Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk, Nikil Kapur and Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: IUCrJ, Issue 20522525, 2022, Page(s) 538-543, ISSN 2052-2525
Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
DOI: 10.1107/s2052252522007631

Universality of Hair as a Nucleant: Exploring the Effects of Surface Chemistry and Topography

Author(s): Thomas H. Dunn, Sebastian. A. Skaanvik, Ian J. McPherson, Cedrick O’Shaughnessy, Xuefeng He, Alexander N. Kulak, Stuart Micklethwaite, Adriana Matamoros-Veloza, Ilaria Sandei, Liam Hunter, Thomas D. Turner, Johanna M. Galloway, Martin Rosenthal, Andrew J. Britton, Marc Walker, Mingdong Dong, Patrick R. Unwin, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Crystal Growth & Design, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 8978-8990, ISSN 1528-7483
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01035

Electron transparent nanotubes reveal crystallization pathways in confinement

Author(s): Johanna M. Galloway, Zabeada P. Aslam, Stephen R. Yeandel, Alexander Kulak, Martha A. Ilett, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Angela Bejarano-Villafuerte, Boaz Pokroy, Rik M. Drummond-Brydson, Colin L. Freeman, John H. Harding, Nikil Kapur, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 6705-6715, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sc00869j

Droplet Microfluidics XRD Identifies Effective Nucleating Agents for Calcium Carbonate

Author(s): Mark A. Levenstein, Clara Anduix‐Canto, Yi‐Yeoun Kim, Mark A. Holden, Carlos González Niño, David C. Green, Stephanie E. Foster, Alexander N. Kulak, Lata Govada, Naomi E. Chayen, Sarah J. Day, Chiu C. Tang, Britta Weinhausen, Manfred Burghammer, Nikil Kapur, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 29/19, 2019, Page(s) 1808172, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201808172

Investigating the Nucleation Kinetics of Calcium Carbonate Using a Zero-Water-Loss Microfluidic Chip

Author(s): Zongwei Zhang, Yuan Gao, Fiona C. Meldrum, Lingling Shui, Zhijun Wang, Shunbo Li, Gang Li
Published in: Crystal Growth & Design, Issue 20/4, 2020, Page(s) 2787-2795, ISSN 1528-7483
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00191

Next‐Generation Nanopore Sensors Based on Conductive Pulse Sensing for Enhanced Detection of Nanoparticles

Author(s): Samuel Confederat, Seungheon Lee, Der Vang, Dimitrios Soulias, Fabio Marcuccio, Timotheus I. Peace, Martin Andrew Edwards, Pietro Strobbia, Devleena Samanta, Christoph Wälti, Paolo Actis
Published in: Small, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202305186

Phage display identifies Affimer proteins that direct calcium carbonate polymorph formation

Author(s): Ilaria Sandei, Thembaninkosi Gaule, Matthew Batchelor, Emanuele Paci, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Alexander N. Kulak, Darren C. Tomlinson, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Biomaterials Science, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 5215-5224, ISSN 2047-4830
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4bm00165f

Positively Charged Additives Facilitate Incorporation in Inorganic Single Crystals

Author(s): Ouassef Nahi; Alexander Broad; Alexander N. Kulak; Helen M. Freeman; Shuheng Zhang; Thomas D. Turner; Lucien Roach; Robert Darkins; Ian J. Ford; Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Chemistry of Materials, Issue 15205002, 2022, Page(s) 4910–4923, ISSN 1520-5002
Publisher: american chemical society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00097

Magnesium Ions Direct the Solid-State Transformation of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Thin Films to Aragonite, Magnesium-Calcite, or Dolomite

Author(s): Shuheng Zhang, Ouassef Nahi, Li Chen, Zabeada Aslam, Nikil Kapur, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 16163028, 2022, Page(s) 2201394, ISSN 1616-3028
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202201394

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Real Space and High-throughput Analysis of Crystallisation over Multiple Length Scales

Author(s): Xiaoyue Wu
Published in: 2024
Publisher: University of Leeds

Engineered organic templates for controlling crystallisation

Author(s): Ilaria Sandei
Published in: 2023
Publisher: University of Leeds

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

The many lives of calcium carbonate

Author(s): Fiona C. Meldrum, Helmut Cölfen
Published in: Nature Chemistry, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 1196-1196, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01284-0

Starfish Grow Extraordinary Crystals

Author(s): Stephen T. Hyde and Fiona C. Meldrum
Published in: Science, Issue Vol 375, Issue 6581, 2022, Page(s) 615-616, ISSN 1095-9203
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abn2717