Particle-based hematite crystallization is invariant to initial particle morphology-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Particle-based hematite crystallization is invariant to initial particle morphology

Published:2022-03-11 Issue:11 Volume:119 Page:
ISSN:0027-8424
Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Author:

Wang Yining¹²^ORCID,Xue Sichuang¹,Lin Qingyun¹³⁴^ORCID,Song Duo¹^ORCID,He Yang¹⁵,Liu Lili¹^ORCID,Zhou Jianbin¹,Zong Meirong¹,De Yoreo James J.¹⁶,Zhu Junwu²,Rosso Kevin M.¹^ORCID,Sushko Maria L.¹^ORCID,Zhang Xin¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Physical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354

2. Key Laboratory for Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

3. Center of Electron Microscopy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

4. State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

5. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 10083, China

6. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

Abstract

Significance Many crystallization processes occurring in nature produce highly ordered hierarchical architectures. Their formation cannot be explained using classical models of monomer-by-monomer growth. One of the possible pathways involves crystallization through the attachment of oriented nanocrystals. Thus, it requires detailed understanding of the mechanism of particle dynamics that leads to their precise crystallographic alignment along specific faces. In this study, we discover a particle-morphology–independent oriented attachment mechanism for hematite nanocrystals. Independent of crystal morphology, particles always align along the [001] direction driven by aligning interactions between (001) faces and repulsive interactions between other pairs of hematite faces. These results highlight that strong face specificity along one crystallographic direction can render oriented attachment to be independent of initial particle morphology.

Funder

DOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2112679119

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