Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7064, 2005, Pages 70-73

  Piana, Stefano ^a   Reyhani, Manijeh ^a   Gale, Julian D ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PURIFICATION; UREA;

CRYSTAL SHAPE; THERMODYNAMIC MORPHOLOGY; UREA CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

NANOPARTICLE; SOLVENT; UREA;

CHEMISTRY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 27744567731     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04173     Document Type: Article

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