Open AccessWulff shape of crystals
Author(s) -
Salvador Miracle-Solé
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
scholarpedia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-6016
DOI - 10.4249/scholarpedia.31266
Subject(s) - materials science , crystallography , chemistry
Article in a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia.International audienceWulff shape of crystals. The shape of an equilibrium crystal is obtained, according to the Gibbs thermodynamic principle, by minimizing the total surface free energy associated to the crystal-medium interface. To study the solution to this problem, known as the Wulff construction, is the object of the article
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