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Growth morphology of crystals from kinetic and geometric perspective
Author(s) -
Prywer J.,
Krasiński M. J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
crystal research and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1521-4079
pISSN - 0232-1300
DOI - 10.1002/crat.200711005
Subject(s) - morphology (biology) , face (sociological concept) , perspective (graphical) , crystal (programming language) , geometry , point (geometry) , range (aeronautics) , crystal growth , field (mathematics) , kinetic energy , materials science , chemistry , crystallography , physics , mathematics , geology , computer science , classical mechanics , pure mathematics , composite material , sociology , paleontology , social science , programming language
The growth morphology of crystals is analysed from macroscopic point of view and the recent developments in this field are surveyed. In particular, it is shown that, for specific geometry characterized by interfacial angles a given face can increase in size for a very wide range of relative growth rates and need not be the slow‐growing face. Even growing faster than the neighbouring faces, such a face can increase in its size. However, there are other faces with other specific geometry, which can decrease the size growing more slowly than one of the neighbouring faces. If the growth time is sufficiently long, such a face may disappear and not be represented in the final crystal morphology. In the present survey the concepts given earlier [5] are extended. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)