This month’s Crystal Clear shows silver crystals forming tree shaped structures.
The image is taken from an article by Chunhua Ding, Jixiang Fang and colleagues from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, which appeared in Issue 14 of CrystEngComm.
The scientists look at the nanostructural growth of the silver crystals, and how changing the conditions changes the way the crystals form. In this optical micrograph the silver crystals are arranged into a loose fractal tree, but they also made dendrite and dense branched shaped structures.
Read the full article to find out more about the nanostructures of these silver crystals…
In situ studies of different growth modes of silver crystals induced by the concentration field in an aqueous solution
Hongjun You, Chunhua Ding, Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding and Jixiang Fang
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 4491-4495
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05289F
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