Dendritic nucleation

The dendrites nucleate on the fibers and grow into the interfiber spaces (occurring with hypereutectic Al-Si alloys, AfiSi and AlsNi)... 

Growth theories of surfaces have received considerable attention over the last sixty years as summarized by Laudise et al. [53] and Jackson [54]. The well-known model of the crystal surface incorporating adatoms, ledges and kinks was first introduced by Kossel [55] and Stranski [56]. Becker and Doring [57] calculated the rates of nucleation of new layers of atoms, and Papapetrou [58] investigated dendritic crystallization. 

The microtubule-associated proteins MAP2 and tau both have two separate functional regions (Lewis et al., 1989). One is the microtubule-binding site, which nucleates microtubule assembly and controls the rate of elongation (by slowing the rate of assembly). The second functional domain shared by MAP2 and tau is a short C-terminal a-helical sequence that can cross-link microtubules into bundles by self-interaction. This domain has some of the properties of a leucine zipper. Likely it is responsible for the organization of microtubules into dense stable parallel arrays in axons and dendrites (Lewis et al., 1989). 

The organization of MTs in neurons differs several ways from that seen in non-neuronal cells (Fig. 8-3) [9]. Axonal and dendritic MTs are not continuous back to the cell body nor are they associated with any visible MTOC. Axonal MTs can be more than 100 pm long, but they have uniform polarity, with all plus-ends distal to the cell body. Dendritic MTs are typically shorter and often exhibit mixed polarity, with only about 50% oriented plus-end distal. Recent work suggests that MTs in both axons and dendrites are nucleated normally at the MTOC, but they are then released from the MTOC and delivered to neurites [10],... 

Reid et al. [ 1.12] described the effect of 1 % addition certain polymers on the heterogeneous nucleation rate at-18 °C the rate was 30 times greater than in distilled, microfiltered water and at -15 °C, the factor was still 10 fold hogher. All added polymers (1 %) influenced the nucleation rate in a more or less temperature-dependent manner. However, the authors could not identify a connection between the polymer structure and nucleation rate. None the less it became clear that the growth of dendritic ice crystals depended on to factors (i) the concentration of the solution (5 % to 30 % sucrose) and (ii) the rate at which the phase boundary water - ice crystals moved. However, the growth was found to be independent of the freezing rate. (Note of the author the freezing rate influences the boundary rate). 

The mechanisms of the crystal-building process of Cu on Fe and A1 substrates were studied employing transmission and scanning electron microscopy (1). These studies showed that a nucleation-coalescence growth mechanism (Section 7.10) holds for the Cu/Fe system and that a displacement deposition of Cu on Fe results in a continuous deposit. A different nucleation-growth model was observed for the Cu/Al system. Displacement deposition of Cu on A1 substrate starts with formation of isolated nuclei and clusters of Cu. This mechanism results in the development of dendritic structures. 

The experimental conditions and results of the analysis of the purity of separated benzene crystals are shown in Table 1. In tests of No. 1-1 to 1-4, and 3-1 and 3-2, the melt was compressed to the pressure shown in Table 1 and kept on the same value, without seed crystals. Nucleation occured on the wall and crystals grew there. In tests of No.2-1, 2-2 and 3-3, seed crystals were made as described above they grew both inside the optical cell and on the wall. In these tests, since the melt around benzene crystals was replaced by the water, the crystals were taken out without serious destruction. The shapes of benzene crystals were dendritic, and purity of it was over 99.9 mole percent, independent from the operational conditions and the feed compositions as shown in Table 1. Therefore, crystals obtained by high pressxire crystallization is considered to be very pure due to the complete removement of mother liquid from crystal surface. 

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