We propose a new type of crystal growth phenomenon—structure-dependent attachment kinetics—to explain the growth of thin ice plates from the vapor phase at temperatures near 15 C. In particular, we propose that the condensation coefficient for growth of ice prism facets increases dramatically when the width of the facet approaches atomic dimensions. This model reconciles several conflicting mea...

The problem of crystal sizes is one of the central problems of differentiation of a terrestrial magma ocean and it has been an arbitrary parameter in previous models. The crystal sizes are controlled by kinetics of nucleation and crystal growth in a convective magma ocean. In contrast with crystallization in magma chambers, volcanic lavas, dikes, and other relatively well studied systems, nucle...

Slow growth of calcite in confinement is abundant in Nature and man made materials. There is ample evidence that such confined growth may create forces that fracture solids. The thermodynamic limits are well known but since confined crystal growth is transport limited and difficult to control in experiment we have almost no information on the mechanisms or limits of these processes. We present ...

The BRCT domain from Rhp9 (a Schizosaccharomyces pombe DNA-damage checkpoint protein) has been expressed, purified and crystallized. Overexpression in bacterial cells was achieved by minimizing aeration during host cell growth. A robotic screen was used to determine the solubility parameters; concentration of the protein was achieved by exploiting this information. Single crystals suitable for ...

This review shares historical glimpses behind the art and science of urinary crystal growth in gel. This successful journey of long and painstaking research consists of both theoretical and experimental knowledge. The survey consists of historical aspects of crystal growth, development of urinary crystal growth in gel as an in vitro urolithiasis model and the application of this model to evalua...

A microscopic, reversible model to study protein crystal nucleation and growth is presented. The probability of monomer attachment to the growing crystal was assumed to be proportional to the protein volume fraction and the orientational factor representing the anisotropy of protein molecules. The rate of detachment depended on the free energy of association of the given monomer in the lattice,...

Crystal growth has been widely studied for many years, and, since the pioneering work of Burton, Cabrera and Frank, spirals and target patterns on the crystal surface have been understood as forms of tangential crystal growth mediated by defects and by two-dimensional nucleation. Similar spirals and target patterns are ubiquitous in physical systems describable as excitable media. Here, we demo...

Quartz is the most frequently used piezoelectric material. Single crystals are industrially grown by the hydrothermal route under super-critical conditions (150 MPa-623 K). This paper is an overview of the hydrothermal crystal growth of the AO2 and MXO4 α-quartz isotypes. All of the studies on the crystal growth of this family of materials enable some general and schematic conclusions to be mad...