Principles of controlled crystallization

The principle of controlled crystallization and morphosynthesis using a soluble polymer as crystal growth modifier in a solution which does not form an assembly is completely different from the templating effects, such as artificial interfaces and matrices or patterned substrates, which will be discussed in Sect. 5. The structure setup and evolution certainly does not rely on transcription or a straightforward template effect, but relies on a synergistic effect of the mutual interactions between fimctional groups of the polymers and inorganic species, and the subsequent reconstruction by a self-assembly process [4,10,55]. 

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