## Abstract Surface morphology of the (100) face of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals which were grown at different supersaturations at 25 Β°C was investigated by in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM). Various AFM images of 2D nucleation under different growth conditions were presented.
In situ measurement of growth kinetics of {100} KDP crystal faces in the presence of polyphosphate impurities
β Scribed by Bing Liu; Chang-Shui Fang; Sheng-Lai Wang; Xiao-Ming Mou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0232-1300
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The face growth rate and critical supersaturation of {100} face were in situ measured using the laserβpolarizationβinterference technique in the presence of potassium pyrophosphate, trimetric sodium phosphate and sodium hexametaphosphate impurities. The polyphosphate impurities inhibit the growth rate of prismatic faces. The face growth rate as a function of supersaturation at different impurity concentrations, as well as critical supersaturation as a function of impurity concentrations, was found in good agreement with a twoβdimensional nucleation model in the pure system and Kubota and Mullin's model in the presence of impurities. The average distance L between active sites available for impurity adsorption as well as the edge free energy was calculated. (Β© 2008 WILEYβVCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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