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Controlling and Predicting Crystal Shapes: The Case of Urea
Author(s) -
Salvalaglio Matteo,
Vetter Thomas,
Mazzotti Marco,
Parrinello Michele
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201304562
Subject(s) - crystal habit , representation (politics) , urea , crystal (programming language) , diagram , crystal growth , habit , morphology (biology) , crystallography , chemical physics , materials science , statistical physics , thermodynamics , chemistry , mathematics , computer science , physics , crystallization , statistics , biology , organic chemistry , psychology , zoology , social psychology , politics , political science , law , programming language
Understanding crystal growth from solution is crucial to control the evolution of crystal morphologies. Experiments, molecular simulations, and theory were combined to examine the morphology of urea crystals grown in different solutions. To get a rational representation of all the possible habits a shape diagram (see picture) is introduced in which the habit dependence on the relative growth rates is illustrated.