| Educational guide Faculty of Chemistry |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry (2009) |
 Subjects |
| NUCLEATION AND CRYSTAL GROWTH |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | NUCLEATION AND CRYSTAL GROWTH | Code | 13204211 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | Fourth | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Homogeneous nucleation |
Types of Nucleation. Induction period. Metastable zone. |
| Velocity and mechanism of crystal growth Crystal habit |
Speed and types of faces. Types of growth mechanisms. Surface diffusion models and volume diffusion models. |
| Crystal Habit | Equilibrium form. Wulff's theorem. Form of growth |
| Relationship between morphology and crystal structure |
Morphological theories: Bravais-Friedel Donnay-Harker. Hartman and Perdok Periodic Bond Chain Theory. |
| Internal factors and external factors. Habit Change | Influence of external factors: Impurities, solvent, hydrodynamics. |
| Growth from melting. | Methods of Bridgman, Czochralski and others. |
| Crystal growth from solution | Low and high temperature |
| crystal growth from vapor | Main growth methods. |
| Growth from solid phase. | Main growth methods. |
| Epitaxial Growth | Growth of epitaxial layers, foundations, VPE, LPE |
| Nanoparticle growth | Main methods |
