期刊
FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA
卷 290, 期 1-2, 页码 36-42出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2009.08.006
关键词
Crystal morphology; KB theory; Urea; NaCl; Computer simulation
资金
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM079277-02, R01 GM079277] Funding Source: Medline
It has been known for over a century that the presence of cosolvents such as urea and formamide can alter the morphology of NaCl crystals grown from solution. To help understand this effect we have been developing a theoretical approach based on the Kirkwood-Buff (KB) theory of solutions, and have combined this with computer simulations of the interaction of urea with different crystal faces of NaCl. In this way one can predict the effect of urea on the thermodynamic stability of different NaCl faces, with atomic level detail provided by the simulations. We observe that urea is preferentially excluded from 100 and 111 crystal faces, but is less excluded from 111 faces which present chloride ions at the surface. The results indicate that the 111 face is stabilized in urea solutions and promotes the formation of octahedral over cubic NaCl crystals. The approach is totally general and can be applied to understand a variety of interfacial properties. Furthermore, we apply KB theory to study several other issues regarding the simulation of crystal growth. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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