Structure and cleavage of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals
Date
17/01/2019Metadata
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The structural study of monosodium urate monohydrate, as the principal component in gout stones, reveals that a simple and biocompatible way to breakdown the crystals into polymerised molecules at pH of 7.4 (the acidity of normal human blood) is to peel off them along the [001] direction by sonication.
Citation
Molloy , R , Sun , W , Chen , J & Zhou , W 2019 , ' Structure and cleavage of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals ' , Chemical Communications , vol. In press . https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC10050K
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Chemical Communications
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1359-7345Type
Journal article
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