Strain-relief by single dislocation loops in calcite crystals grown on self-assembled monolayers

Epitaxial crystal growth attracts significant interest. Here, the authors use Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging to demonstrate calcite crystal precipitation on self-assembled monolayers exhibiting single dislocation loops with different geometries to those generated in conventional epitaxial thin f...

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Main Authors: Johannes Ihli, Jesse N. Clark, Alexander S. Côté, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Anna S. Schenk, Alexander N. Kulak, Timothy P. Comyn, Oliver Chammas, Ross J. Harder, Dorothy M. Duffy, Ian K. Robinson, Fiona C. Meldrum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11878