Crystal growth diffusion-limited aggregation

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation-Like Crystal Growths... 

Growth and Formation of Diffusion-Limited-Aggregation Crystal Pattern... 

The adsorption of semicrystalline polymers at the polymer melt-solid interface is another interesting question to be answered. When a monolayer of semicrystalline polymer molecules is prepared on a solid surface, nucleation and crystal growth can be very different from that found in the bulk due to confinement effects [72-78]. Polymer chains in the vicinity of the solid surface tend to crystallize into lamellar crystals with either flat-on or edge-on orientations, depending on specific interactions with solids [79-81]. Among a variety of morphologies reported in the literature, the formation of dendrites or seaweed structures via the so-called diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) process was the most commonly observed in semicrystalline polymer monolayers [76, 82]. 

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