pH值对KDP晶体溶解度和溶液稳定性的影响

测定了不同pH值(2.0～5.5)生长溶液中KDP晶体(KH2PO4)的溶解度曲线,实验结果表明:随着生长溶液pH值的改变,KDP溶解度明显增大.讨论了KDP晶体溶液pH值、溶液组成和溶液饱和点温度三者之间的关系.进行了高pH值(3.8～5.6)KDP生长溶液的稳定性实验,发现高pH值生长溶液中的临界成核半径rC增大,溶液的稳定性提高.在不同pH值溶液中进行了晶体生长实验,探讨了不同pH值生长溶液中配合物对KDP晶体生长习性的影响.     

不同pH值下磷酸二氢铵(ADP)溶液成核过程研究

利用全程摄像的方法测定了不同情况下ADP过饱和溶液的诱导期,研究了不同pH值、不同温度的ADP过饱和溶液的成核过程,讨论了pH值、温度和过饱和度S等因素对诱导期的影响.结果表明:改变pH值后,在同一过饱和度下,溶液的稳定性在不同温度间差异较小,更利于晶体在较高的温度下稳定快速的生长;改变pH值后,溶液在整个过饱和度范围内更趋向于均匀成核.根据经典均匀成核理论,针对ADP溶液均匀成核的状况计算出了不同pH值和温度下的固-液界面张力、临界成核功等成核参数,并从上述参数的相互比较中得到了改变pH值后溶液稳定性变强的微观原因.最后通过对表面熵因子的计算,确定了ADP晶体的微观生长机制为连续生长模式.     

新型有机非线性光学材料L-酒石酸脲晶体生长研究

本文研究了有机非线性光学晶体L-酒石酸脲在过饱和溶液中的成核过程.测定了不同温度下L-酒石酸脲的溶解度和成核诱导期,计算了成核特征参数.讨论了不同温度、过饱和度对L-酒石酸脲成核诱导期的影响.研究表明L-酒石酸脲晶体的成核诱导期随着溶液温度和过饱和度的增大而减少.通过经典成核理论计算了L-酒石酸脲的固液表面张力、成核自由能和临界成核半径等系列成核参数.     

L-精氨酸掺杂下ZTS溶液的稳定性研究

研究了L-精氨酸掺杂下硫脲硫酸锌(ZTS)溶液中的成核过程,测量了在不同掺杂浓度下ZTS溶液的亚稳区和诱导期.结果表明:随掺杂浓度的增加,溶液的亚稳区变宽,诱导期增大;根据经典成核理论计算了晶体的成核热、动力学参数,分析了溶液稳定性与掺杂浓度的关系,即随着L-精氨酸掺杂浓度的增加,溶液的稳定性得到明显提高.利用化学腐蚀法对ZTS晶体(100)面进行了腐蚀,并用光学显微镜对腐蚀面进行观察,得到了清晰的位错蚀坑.当L-精氨酸掺杂浓度为1.5mol;时,ZTS晶体(100)面位错蚀坑密度最小,适合高光学质量晶体的生长.     

点状籽晶法生长KDP晶体中散射颗粒分布

在不同的溶液pH值条件下进行了点状籽晶法慢速和快速生长KDP晶体实验,发展了观察晶体中散射颗粒分布的激光层析技术,通过图像处理得到了KDP晶体内部(100)面完整的散射颗粒分部图,对不同生长速度、不同pH值条件下点状籽晶法生长的KDP晶体的散射颗粒分部做了对比.利用表面光学投影技术观察了晶体表面宏观形貌,并由此分析了不同生长条件下生长机制对散射颗粒分布的影响.测定了散射颗粒密度不同部位的晶体透过率.     

EDTA和KCl双掺杂下KDP溶液的稳定性研究

研究了EDTA与KCl不同掺杂浓度和不同过饱和比下KDP溶液的成核过程,测定了不同条件下KDP过饱和溶液的诱导期;根据经典成核理论计算了成核热、动力学参数,并分析了溶液稳定性随掺杂浓度的变化情况。利用化学腐蚀法对KDP晶体(100)面进行了腐蚀,得到了清晰的位错蚀坑,并使用光学显微镜观察了(100)面位错蚀坑的分布特点。结果表明,当过饱和度为4%、掺杂浓度为0.01 mol%EDTA和1 mol%KCl时,不仅KDP过饱和溶液的稳定性比较高,而且位错蚀坑的分布比较均匀、密度小,适合高质量的KDP晶体生长。     

滴定过程控制Mg(OH)2晶体粒径和形貌

以氯化镁为镁源,氨水为沉淀剂,分别采用正向、反向和双向三种滴定过程制备Mg(OH)2,通过监测溶液动态pH值变化,并引入晶体生长驱动力指标S(镁与氢氧根离子积与容度积的比值取对数)来定量表示溶液滴定过程中动态过饱和度变化,SEM和XRD表征Mg(OH):的结构和形貌.结果表明,正向滴定过程合成的Mg(OH):晶粒大小混杂(100-600 am),反向滴定合成的晶粒偏小(200 nm左右),双向滴定合成的晶粒粒径分布集中(400 nm左右).引入的S较能准确地描述Mg(OH)2成核和晶体生长的规律,不同的滴定过程有不同的S值变化规律.联系S值的变化和晶体粒径的分布,认为S>0时晶体成核占主导,S<0时晶体生长占主导.通过动态控制溶液S值的动态变化,可以目的性地控制Mg(OH)2晶体的结构和形貌.     

6H-SiC成核表面形貌与缺陷产生的研究

利用光学显微镜观察了6H-SiC晶体成核表面形貌,并使用高分辨X射线衍射法检测了不同区域的结晶质量.根据表面形貌的不同将成核表面分为三个区域:平台区、斜坡区、凹坑区.平台区的结晶质量最好,斜坡区和凹坑区由于缺陷(例如微管、小角晶界和多型夹杂等)的存在导致结晶质量变差.依据温场分布以及籽晶的固定分析了凹坑产生的可能原因.根据观察纵切片发现源于斜坡区以及凹坑区的缺陷随着晶体的生长继承到晶体内部导致后期生长的晶体质量变差.最后我们提出了通过优化成核温场分布以及改善籽晶固定方法来提高晶体成核质量的思路.     

磺基水杨酸锶分光晶体生长的研究

本文采用液相法合成了高纯度磺基水杨酸锶(简称SSS)多晶粉末原料,并采用热分析、红外光谱和XRD分析对多晶粉末原料进行表征。以水为溶剂分别在不同pH值下(pH=2.50、1.50和0.60)进行了SSS结晶习性实验。结果表明,在水溶液中当pH=0.60时SSS结晶性最好,实验还测定了SSS晶体在不同pH值溶液中的溶解度曲线,并进行了过饱和溶液成核机理的研究。研究结果表明,当生长溶液pH为0.60时,控制单晶生长温度在40～50℃区间,采用水溶液降温法可生长出63 mm×25 mm×3 mm的透明单晶。     

盐酸酸沉四钼酸铵结晶的成核研究

本文研究了用盐酸酸沉仲钼酸铵溶液制备四钼酸铵的成核过程,测量了以诱导期表示的成核速率,讨论了温度和过饱和比对成核速率的影响.结果表明,四钼酸铵过饱和溶液的成核速率随着温度的升高和过饱和比的增大而增大.确定了在实验的温度范围内均匀成核和非均匀成核之间的界限,并根据均匀成核理论计算了其成核特征参数.     

The effect of cooling rate on size,quality and morphology of KTiOPO4 (KTP) crystals grown by different nucleation techniques

KTP crystals have been grown by two nucleation techniques namely spontaneous nucleation in flux medium and nucleation on Pt rod using K₆P₄O₁₃ flux.10 °C/h, 7 °C/h, 0.8 °C/h, 0.4 °C/h and 0.2 °C/h cooling rates were applied for spontaneous nucleation and crystals up to 15 × 7 × 4 mm³ in size were grown. 1 °C/h and 0.8 °C/h cooling rates were also used for nucleation on Pt rod and crystals up to 8 × 6 × 3 mm³ in size were grown. The effect of cooling rate on size, morphology and optical quality of grown crystals by both techniques were studied. For nucleation on Pt rod upper and lower rotation rates limits and an optimum rotation rate were distinguished for each cooling rate. Quality of the grown crystals by both techniques was characterized by optical transmission analysis.     

Effect of pH value on the growth morphology of KH2PO4 crystal grown in defined crystallographic direction

KH₂PO₄ single crystals were grown in aqueous solution at different pH values by using “point seeds” with a defined crystallographic direction at 59 degree to the Z axis. Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) was applied to observe the surface morphology of (100) face. It was found that at the same supersaturation, the larger steps appeared at the lower pH value before appearance of 2D nucleus. We found that 2D nucleus was occurred at σ ≤ 0.04 when pH value is <2.8. The occurrence of 2D nucleus was caused by the decreasing step‐edge free energy with the decreasing of pH value in the growth solution. In this paper, we observed the morphologies of (100) faces of KDP crystals which grew in solutions with different pH values. 2D nucleuses appeared on the terrace of growth steps when pH value down to 2.8 and 3.2 at supersaturation of 0.04, while pH value down to 2.4, only 2D nucleation control the growth. Therefore, the pH value can change the growth mechanism of KDP crystals.     

Parity violation and parity conservation in unstirred crystallization: Effect of first crystals

Statistics of nucleation of chiral forms was studied to establish the effect of the number of first crystals and their handedness on distributions of enantiomers. Various bimodal, trimodal and unimodal distributions are obtained in unstirred crystallization, depending on the number of initial crystals and growth conditions. The binomial distribution satisfactorily describes experimental distributions of enantiomeric excess and may be used to predict distributions and probabilities of nucleation of enantiomers. The first nucleated crystals determine the handedness of secondary crystals, and number of initial crystals governs statistics of chiral nucleation. According to the binomial distribution if single crystals nucleate as the first, the bimodal distributions result with D and L peaks. If LD, LL, and DD pairs are nucleated as first, trimodal distributions with D, R, and L peaks are created, and if groups of crystals of various handedness nucleate as the first the unimodal distributions of enantiomeric excess with racemate R peaks are formed. Chiral nucleation experiments on sodium bromate were the basis for the theoretical considerations and verifications of predictions resulting from binomial distributions on probabilities of the creation of L and D crystals, and racemates, and the presence of D, L, and R peaks in the distributions. Growth conditions affect the number of the first crystals and effectiveness of cloning, and as a result, the distributions of enantiomers. Formation of pure enantiomers and/or racemates proves that the conservation of chiral symmetry, and the breakage of chiral symmetry can occur in unstirred crystallization. (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Sodium Chlorate Crystallization from Unstirred Solution

Statistics of nucleation of chiral forms of sodium chlorate from unstirred, achiral solutions was studied. The trimodal distribution of enantiomers was obtained in which apart from the peak for the same probability of the creation of L and D crystals, two other maxima for the large enantiomeric excesses of L and D forms were present. The first nucleated crystals govern the handedness of the secondary crystals and the formation of pure enantiomers and high enantiomeric excesses in crystallization from unstirred, unseeded solutions are caused by the process of chiral symmetry breaking rather than statistical fluctuations.     

Chiral symmetry breaking in unstirred crystallization

Statistics of nucleation of chiral forms of sodium bromate from unstirred aqueous solutions was studied. It was established that bimodal, trimodal and unimodal distributions of enantiomers are obtained in unstirred crystallization. It was also found out that probabilities of the creation of L or D crystals and racemates R, as well as the presence of D, L, and R peaks in distributions depend on crystallizer size, supersaturation and temperature. Nucleation at low supersaturations in small, closed crystallizers leads to the formation of pure enantiomers, and to bimodal distributions with D and L peaks at any temperature. At high supersaturations in large, open crystallizers the formation of racemates and unimodal distributions with racemate R peaks results. In open crystallizers at the lowest temperatures and at the highest temperatures used in crystallization from aqueous solution racemates of sodium bromate are preferentially formed, but in a wide range of intermediate‐temperatures apart from racemates, pure enantiomers are efficiently formed which leads to trimodal distributions. The spontaneous formation of pure enantiomers in crystallization from unstirred, unseeded solutions is caused by the chiral symmetry breaking phenomenon, the same as that discovered in stirred crystallization. The conservation of chiral symmetry is, in unstirred crystallization, one of the two possibilities, and the other one is the breakage of symmetry. Both of them occur in nature. (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Hollow rhombohedral calcite crystals encompassing CO2 microcavities nucleated in solution

A new way for heterogeneous nucleation of crystals from the solution is described: 3D crystalline structure can nucleate and grow encompassing gaseous cavities, formed on solid substrates in the aqueous solution, so giving rise to crystal bubbles. The double surface of a crystal bubble is made, in this case, by the faces of the cleavage calcite rhombohedron separating the solution from the enclosed gas cavity. The faces thickness and the edges length amount to a few nanometers and to about 5 μm, respectively. Then, the surface-to-volume ratio is the highest obtained for 3D crystals, amidst the consulted literature. Bubbles’ shape is explained through the equilibrium properties of crystal–cavity and crystal–solution interfaces and in terms of growth mechanisms operating on the separate interfaces. The nucleation of the crystals around gas cavities can provide new insight on those mineralization phenomena where the gas phase participate in crystal growth. Potential applications are also envisaged concerning the nucleation of the gas cavities on peculiar templates which impose 1D (or 2D) periodicity to crystal bubbles, in order to obtain 1D and/or 2D photonic crystals.     

熔体分层对BaBiBO4晶体生长的影响

研究在用助熔剂法生长BaBiBO4晶体的过程中,熔体分层对晶体生长的影响.以Li2Mo3O10作为助熔剂,采用自发成核和顶部籽晶两种方法来生长晶体.对于这两种方法得到的晶体,用X射线粉末衍射及拉曼光谱进行了表征,结果显示,在晶体生长过程中,由于熔体分层,导致通过自发成核和顶部籽晶分别得到BaMoO4多晶和LiBaB9O15单晶两种不同的物相.     

Heterogeneous versus bulk nucleation of lysozyme crystals

Heterogeneous (on‐glass) protein crystal nucleation was separated from the bulk one in systems of thin protein solution layers, confined between two glass plates of custom made quasi two‐dimensional all‐glass cells, as well as by applying forced protein solution flow. Two commercial samples of hen‐egg‐white lysozyme, Seikagaku and Sigma were used as model proteins. Applying the classical technique of separation in time of nucleation and growth stages with protein solution layers of thickness 0.05 cm we found that the on‐glass crystal nucleation prevailed highly with Seikagaku HEWL, while on the opposite, bulk nucleated crystals represented the main crystal fraction in Sigma solution. Also using 0.05 cm solution layers nucleation rates were measured separately for the on‐glass and bulk protein crystals. The process was investigated by varying solution layer thicknesses as well, from 0.05 down to 0.01, 0.0065 and 0.002 cm. Studying the influence of the forced protein solution flow on HEWL crystal nucleation the classical double‐pulse technique was modified by separating the nucleation and growth stages not only in time, but simultaneously also in place. In this case we found that the ratio of on‐glass formed crystal nuclei to bulk nuclei depended on the flow velocity, but in different manner with Seikagaku HEWL and Sigma HEWL. A plausible explanation of our experimental results is that the bulk crystal nucleation occurs on foreign surfaces as well, e.g. on rests of source biomaterial, which are always present in the protein solutions. Moreover, biomaterial seems to be more active nucleant than glass. (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Investigation of single crystal growth of GaPO4 by the flux method

GaPO₄ crystals have been grown by a spontaneous nucleation method and the top-seeded solution growth method using three different solvents, 3MoO₃-Li₂O, 3MoO₃-K₂O and 2KPO₃-5MoO₃-3LiF. All of the as-grown crystals were characterized by means of X-ray powder diffraction. The results show that all the crystals were well crystallized and belong to the point group 32, and 2KPO₃-5MoO₃-3LiF flux is the best for nucleation and growth of transparent GaPO₄ crystals. The infrared spectrum of GaPO₄ single crystal obtained by the flux method shows that there is no incorporation of OH groups during the crystallization, which is beneficial for high temperature piezoelectric applications.     

Novel synthesis of gibbsite by laser-stimulated nucleation in supersaturated sodium aluminate solutions

Laser-induced localized density fluctuations are shown to stimulate primary nucleation of nano-sized aluminum trihydroxide seed crystals in flowing supersaturated industrial sodium aluminate solutions (Bayer liquor). The post-nucleation mass deposition rate is greatly increased over rates attainable through more traditional seeding methods. Near-ideal single-crystal gibbsite is formed under diffusion-limited growth conditions. Laser-stimulated nucleation represents an in situ method for the active local modulation of the supersaturation state, so that the stimulated nucleation occurs under macroscopic solution conditions that are unfavorable for spontaneous nucleation.