Periodic Fractal-Growth Branching to Nano-Structured Grating Aggregation in Phthalic Acid.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 Mar 2020
04 Mar 2020
Historique:
received:
19
12
2019
accepted:
03
02
2020
entrez:
6
3
2020
pubmed:
7
3
2020
medline:
7
3
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Small-molecule phthalic acid (PA), confined in micrometer thin films, was crystallized in the presence of strongly interacting tannic acid (TA) to investigate crystal assembly and correlation between banded patterns and branching structures. Several compositions of the mixture of ethanol/water solutions and evaporation temperatures were also manipulated to investigate the kinetic effects on the morphology of PA crystals. With increasing evaporation rate, the morphology of PA crystals systematically changes from circular-banded spherulites to highly ordered grating-banded patterns. A unique periodic fractal-branch pattern with contrasted birefringent bands exists at intermediate evaporation rate, and this unique grating architecture has never been found in other banded crystals. Crystal assembly of these three periodic morphologies was analyzed by utilizing atomic-force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to reveal the mechanisms of formation of hierarchical structures of PA. The detailed growth mechanisms of the novel fractal-branching assembly into circular- or grating-banded patterns are analyzed in this work.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32132593
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60782-0
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-60782-0
pmc: PMC7055272
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Journal Article
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eng
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