Ihli, J;
Clark, JN;
Côté, AS;
Kim, YY;
Schenk, AS;
Kulak, AN;
Comyn, TP;
... Meldrum, FC; + view all
(2016)
Strain-relief by single dislocation loops in calcite crystals grown on self-assembled monolayers.
Nature Communications
, 7
, Article 11878. 10.1038/ncomms11878.
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Abstract
Most of our knowledge of dislocation-mediated stress relaxation during epitaxial crystal growth comes from the study of inorganic heterostructures. Here we use Bragg coherent diffraction imaging to investigate a contrasting system, the epitaxial growth of calcite (CaCO 3) crystals on organic self-assembled monolayers, where these are widely used as a model for biomineralization processes. The calcite crystals are imaged to simultaneously visualize the crystal morphology and internal strain fields. Our data reveal that each crystal possesses a single dislocation loop that occupies a common position in every crystal. The loops exhibit entirely different geometries to misfit dislocations generated in conventional epitaxial thin films and are suggested to form in response to the stress field, arising from interfacial defects and the nanoscale roughness of the substrate. This work provides unique insight into how self-assembled monolayers control the growth of inorganic crystals and demonstrates important differences as compared with inorganic substrates.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Strain-relief by single dislocation loops in calcite crystals grown on self-assembled monolayers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms11878 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11878 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1500084 |
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