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Low dimensional systems

Specific features of the evolution of electrolytic copper microcrystals with inhibition of the growth of low-energy facets

I. S. Yasnikov, D. A. Denisova

Togliatti State University

Abstract: Experimental evidence for the possibility of controllably transforming the habit of copper microcrystals formed by electrodeposition has been presented. Selective evolution of microcrystal facets with a specific crystallographic orientation has been performed by a premeditated change in the chemical composition of a standard sulfuric electrolyte. The experiments have proved the existence of a small particle with icosidodecahedral morphology as an intermediate stage of the evolution of the small particle from an icosahedron to a dodecahedron and demonstrated some elastic-energy relaxation channels associated with inhibition of the growth of low-energy facets of electrolytic copper microcrystals.

Received: 10.09.2012

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2013, 55:3, 642–647

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