LaMer crystallization model

For several decades, Ostwald s work was the foundation of crystallization theory. In 1950, an American chemist, Victor Kuhn LaMer (1895-1966), advanced our understanding of crystallization of colloidal sols. LaMer assumed that crystallization was a diffusion-driven process (LaMer, 1952 Boistelle and Astier, 1988), as described in previous chapters. LaMer s model is described in three steps, presented in Figure 4.1. In the initial steps of the reaction, the concentration of the molecular materials builds until a critical concentration is reached. This critical concentration, called supersaturation, can be written as... 

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