Growing crystals by design: general discussion
Growing crystals by design: general discussion
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通过设计生长晶体:一般讨论
DOI:
10.1039/d2fd90022j
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Hewson, Connor
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作者:
Anderson, Michael;Bennett, Matthew;Cedeno, Ruel;Dudek, Marta K.;Fichthorn, Kristen;Finney, Aaron R.;Ford, Ian;Freeman, Colin;Hare, Alan;Hewson, Connor
Wenhao Sun opened the discussion of the paper by Kristen Fichthorn: Kristen, I really enjoyed reading your paper (https://doi. org/10.1039/d1fd00091h). To me, it suggests a theoretical pathway to computing the kinetic Wulff shape, which o en is not the same as the thermodynamic Wulff shape. Unfortunately, as you show, your calculation is very expensive. I’m wondering if there are any heuristics or faster ways to reach a kinetic Wulff shape, perhaps from DFT-computable parameters?Kristen Fichthorn responded: Kinetics is so system-dependent. I’m not certain there is an easy universal approach to the kinetic Wulff shape. In this work, we used DFT-computable parameters to get at linear-facet growth rates (though we did not explicitly mention this in the current paper, we did mention it in the past1, 2). This could be done with considerable computational expense. Is there a faster way? In a past study, we could show (with the support of experiments) that it was the case that one facet was completely covered by a self-assembled monolayer of capping agent, while the other major facet present during growth did not have surfactant for the same solution-phase chemical potential. From there, we could conclude that solution-phase ion adsorption occurred only on the one facet, but not on the other, leading to certain experimentally observed kinetic shapes. 3, 4 These DFT calculations were relatively easy, but the result was not “automatic”.