Pjcm. Vanhoof et al., MORPHOLOGY OF ORTHORHOMBIC N-PARAFFIN CRYSTALS - A COMPARISON BETWEENTHEORY AND EXPERIMENTS, Journal of crystal growth, 191(4), 1998, pp. 861-872
n-Paraffin crystals have been grown from the vapour: solution and the
melt. The morphology of these crystals is compared with the predicted
morphology on the basis of a recent, thorough connected net analysis.
The morphology of the crystals grown from the vapour phase is in very
good agreement with the predicted morphology and for the first time fa
ceted {1 1 1}, {0 1 0} and {1 0 0} faces have been observed. The morph
ology depends on the supersaturation in accordance with the connected
net analysis. The crystals grown from solutions have very large aspect
ratios, which can be understood in terms of the dependence of the gro
wth rate of the different faces on the step free energies of those fac
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