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Chapter II Solution Growth….
Conclusion
1. Some limited effect of amino acids doping was observed on the
morphology of KDP crystals.
2. The solubility of pure and amino acids doped KDP crystals increased
with increase in temperature. The solubility at given temperature was
more for amino acids doped KDP crystals than for pure KDP crystal.
3. As the doping level of amino acids increased the induction period
increased marginally for particular dopant. Therefore, the doping of
amino acids affected the nucleation process.
4. The values of interfacial tension, energy of formation of critical nucleus
and radius of critical nucleus were calculated at various super-
saturation levels for both pure and doped KDP crystals from classical
nucleation theory, and it was found that the nucleation parameters
decreased as the super-saturation level increased.
5. The values of different nucleation parameters were comparatively
larger for amino acids doped KDP crystals than the pure KDP crystals.
The difference in solubility of amino acids and KDP might have resulted
in the formation of specks of amino acids earlier than KDP , which
might have accelerated the nucleation , probably , in a heterogeneous
manner.
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