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Crystals are sohds. Sohds, on the other hand can be crystalhne, quasi-crystal-hne, or amorphous. Sohds differ from liquids by a shear modulus different from zero so that solids can support shearing forces. Microscopically this means that there exists some long-range orientational order in the sohd. The orientation between a pair of atoms at some point in the solid and a second (arbitrary) pair of atoms at a distant point must on average remain fixed if a shear modulus should exist. Crystals have this orientational order and in addition a translational order their atoms are arranged in regular lattices. 

A special case of coagulation is the "quasi crystal" formation by unit layers of mont-morillonite bearing exchangeable Ca2+ cations (cf. Fig. 3.10). As Sposito (1989) points out, "one can imagine that the competition between the repulsive electrostatic forces and the attractive van der Waals force will, along with random thermal motions, largely determine the behavior of two siloxane surfaces approaching each other to a distance of separation >10 nm. However, at a separation distance of... 

The process of crystal nucleation and growth is equivalent to a phase transition. The initial phase might be a gas, liquid, solution or solid (e.g. glass or another crystal) and the final phase need not be a crystal as traditionally defined. It could be a liquid crystal, a quasi-crystal, a polytype or some other defect solid. The phase transition proceeds via a critical state, which is intermediate between the two phases of the transition and holds the key to the understanding of crystal growth. 

Understanding and predicting the assembling behaviors of multi-component mixtures on solid surfaces is very challenging because of the formation of complex assemblies such as superlattice structures and quasi-crystals on surfaces. In this section, we describe the formation of superlattice structures at liquid-solid interfaces by co-adsorption of two structurally similar molecules, i.e., DBA-OCn bearing alkoxy chains that differ by only one methylene unit, via synergetic interactions between mutual components. Since DBA-OCn at the monocomponent level exhibits an odd-even effect related to molecular chirality that is an origin of superlattice formation, we will start with a discussion on the odd-even effect on molecular self-assemblies on surfaces. 

Boron, aluminum, and gallium belong to the same group of the periodic table. Accordingly, they have the same number of valence electrons, and therefore similarities of the crystal stmctures and of the electronic structures as well should be expected. However, in the case of aluminum and gallium, no elementary crystals with icosahedral structures have become known. Nevertheless, these elements, too, generate icosahedra, namely in quasi-crystalline stmctures, and Kimura et al. (199) have pointed to the structural similarities to the boron-rich solids. The relation between their electronic properties has been proved by Werheit et al. (200), and hence the aluminum- and gallium-based quasi-crystals may provide a further opportunity to utilize the variation of electronic properties in icosahedral structures. 

Where b is Planck s constant and m and are the effective masses of the electron and hole which may be larger or smaller than the rest mass of the electron. The effective mass reflects the strength of the interaction between the electron or hole and the periodic lattice and potentials within the crystal stmcture. In an ideal covalent semiconductor, electrons in the conduction band and holes in the valence band may be considered as quasi-free particles. The carriers have high drift mobilities in the range of 10 to 10 cm /(V-s) at room temperature. As shown in Table 4, this is the case for both metallic oxides and covalent semiconductors at room temperature. 

According to Vitanov et a/.,61,151 C,- varies in the order Ag(100) < Ag(lll), i.e., in the reverse order with respect to that of Valette and Hamelin.24 63 67 150 383-390 The order of electrolytically grown planes clashes with the results of quantum-chemical calculations,436 439 as well as with the results of the jellium/hard sphere model for the metal/electro-lyte interface.428 429 435 A comparison of C, values for quasi-perfect Ag planes with the data of real Ag planes shows that for quasi-perfect Ag planes, the values of Cf 0 are remarkably higher than those for real Ag planes. A definite difference between real and quasi-perfect Ag electrodes may be the higher number of defects expected for a real Ag crystal. 15 32 i25 401407 10-416-422 since the defects seem to be the sites of stronger adsorption, one would expect that quasi-perfect surfaces would have a smaller surface activity toward H20 molecules and so lower Cf"0 values. The influence of the surface defects on H20 adsorption at Ag from a gas phase has been demonstrated by Klaua and Madey.445... 

Two types of swelling may occur. Surface hydration is one type of swelling in which water molecules are adsorbed on crystal surfaces. Hydrogen bonding holds a layer of water molecules to the oxygen atoms exposed on the crystal surfaces. Subsequent layers of water molecules align to form a quasi-crystalline structure between unit layers which results in an increased c-spacing. All types of clays swell in this manner. 

Their comparatively simple crystal structures may be described as a primitive packing of quasi-molecular units, and, in a way, they represent the border line between molecular and infinitely extended units in a solid (Cheetham and Day 1992). The Mo6 type core is completely surrounded by X atoms and inter-cluster bonding essentially occurs through the Mo-X interactions. The Mo—Mo bonding between clusters is very weak. 

Apart from deliberate or accidental introduction of tiny seed crystals to the system, and productive interactions between existing crystals and quasi-crystalline embryos or clusters in solution, the most influential mode of new crystal generation in an industrial crystalliser is contact secondary nucleation between the existing crystals themselves, between crystals and the walls or other internal parts of the crystalliser, or between crystals and the mechanical agitator. Secondary nucleation rates (in m-3 s 1) are most commonly correlated by empirical relationships such as ... 

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