Spiral Growth Can Enhance Both the Normal Growth Rate and Quality of Tetragonal Lysozyme Crystals Grown under a Forced Solution Flow

We measured the normal growth rate of the {110} face (R110) of tetragonal lysozyme crystals grown by the spiral growth mechanism or the two-dimensional (2D) nucleation growth mechanism under various solution flow rates (0, 8.0, 30, 140, 210 μm/s), and observed the step morphology using laser confocal microscopy combined with differential interference contrast microscopy (LCM-DIM). The R110 of crystals grown by the spiral growth mechanism was...