Evidence for a two-stage particle attachment mechanism for phyllosilicate crystallization in geological processes

He, HP; Yang, YP; Ma, LY; Su, XL; Xian, HY; Zhu, JX; Teng, HH; Guggenheim, S

He, HP (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Guangzhou Inst Geochem, CAS Key Lab Mineral & Metallogeny, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Mineral Phys & Mat, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China.; He, HP (corresponding author), CAS Ctr Excellence Deep Earth Sci, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China.; He, HP (corresponding author), Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China.; Guggenheim, S (corresponding author), Univ Illinois, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Chicago, IL 60607 USA.

AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, 2021; 106 (6): 983

Abstract

The understanding of crystal nucleation and growth has evolved over the past two decades from the conventional atom-by-atom model to a non-classical a......

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