Needle Crystal Morphology Explained
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H. Meekes; S.X.M. Boerrigter; F.F.A. Hollander; P. Bennema
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The morphology of needle shaped crystals is, usually, illβpredicted when using the common attachment energy approach. Here we explain the needle shape of triacylglycerol crystals on the basis of a twoβdimensional nucleation growth mechanism. For that the edge energies of 2D nuclei on th