TY - JOUR
T1 - Dendritic growth of NaCl crystals in a gel matrix
T2 - Variation of branching and control of bending
AU - Goto, Mai
AU - Oaki, Yuya
AU - Imai, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (15K14129) and for Scientific Research (A) (16H02398) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2016/8/3
Y1 - 2016/8/3
N2 - A variety of 2D dendritic morphologies, such as orthogonal lattices, oblique lattices, curved weaves, and randomly branching morphologies, of a simple cubic crystal, NaCl, were selectively produced in a thin gel matrix by the tuning of branching growth modes with the variation of NaCl and gelatin concentrations. We characterized the crystal fabric of these specific patterns consisting of NaCl blocks. It is notable that particular curved branches were induced by gradual changes in the growth direction in asymmetric concentration fields. Straight and bending growth in the particular dendrites can be switched by changing the growth velocity in the gel medium.
AB - A variety of 2D dendritic morphologies, such as orthogonal lattices, oblique lattices, curved weaves, and randomly branching morphologies, of a simple cubic crystal, NaCl, were selectively produced in a thin gel matrix by the tuning of branching growth modes with the variation of NaCl and gelatin concentrations. We characterized the crystal fabric of these specific patterns consisting of NaCl blocks. It is notable that particular curved branches were induced by gradual changes in the growth direction in asymmetric concentration fields. Straight and bending growth in the particular dendrites can be switched by changing the growth velocity in the gel medium.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00323
DO - 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00323
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84982748039
SN - 1528-7483
VL - 16
SP - 4278
EP - 4284
JO - Crystal Growth and Design
JF - Crystal Growth and Design
IS - 8
ER -