Study of the growth mechanism of L-arginine chloride monohydrate (LACh) crystals

It has been established that the velocity υ of steps on the (001) faces depends nonlinearly on the supersaturation σ: as σ increases, dυdσ decreases. For the steps of different orientation the dependences υ(σ) are different and the hillock shape changes with increasing σ. It has been proved that υ is independent of the interstep distance; the behaviour of υ(σ) is not associated with the bulk or surface diffusion processes. In order to interpret...