Running away from Thermodynamics To Promote or Inhibit Crystal Growth

Impurities/additives may be either detrimental or beneficial to many different crystal growth applications. Determined to a great extent by thermodynamics, their effects are hardly avoided once supersaturation, temperature, pH, and impurity content are established. In this work we introduce the rate of supersaturation variation Rσ as a new variable that can dramatically influence crystal growth relatively to steady-state conditions. We show that...