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ArticleCrystal growth & design2018

Crystal Shape Modification via Cycles of Growth and Dissolution in a Tubular Crystallizer.

Peter Neugebauer, Javier Cardona, Maximilian O Besenhard, Anna Peter, Heidrun Gruber-Woelfler, Christos Tachtatzis, Alison Cleary, Ivan Andonovic, Jan Sefcik, Johannes G Khinast

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Article in Crystal growth & design, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Peter NeugebauerGraz University of Technology, Institute of Process and Particle Engineering, Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Javier CardonaCentre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Royal College Building, 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW, U.K.
Maximilian O BesenhardDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE, U.K.
Anna PeterResearch Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) GmbH, Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Heidrun Gruber-WoelflerGraz University of Technology, Institute of Process and Particle Engineering, Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Christos TachtatzisCentre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Royal College Building, 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW, U.K.
Alison ClearyCentre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Royal College Building, 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW, U.K.
Ivan AndonovicCentre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Royal College Building, 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW, U.K.
Jan SefcikDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow, G1 1XJ, U.K.
Johannes G KhinastGraz University of Technology, Institute of Process and Particle Engineering, Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Besides size and polymorphic form, crystal shape takes a central role in engineering advanced solid materials for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. This work demonstrates how multiple cycles of growth and dissolution can manipulate the habit of an acetylsalicylic acid crystal population. Considerable changes of the crystal habit could be achieved within minutes due to rapid cycling, i.e., up to 25 cycles within <10 min. The required fast heating and cooling rates were facilitated using a tubular reactor design allowing for superior temperature control. The face-specific interactions between solvent and the crystals' surface result in face-specific growth and dissolution rates and hence alterations of the final shape of the crystals in solution. Accurate quantification of the crystal shapes was essential for this work, but is everything except simple. A commercial size and shape analyzer had to be adapted to achieve the required accuracy. Online size, and most important shape, analysis was achieved using an automated microscope equipped with a flow-through cell, in combination with a dedicated image analysis routine for particle tracking and shape analysis. Due to the implementation of this analyzer, capable of obtaining statistics on the crystals' shape while still in solution (no sampling and manipulation required), the dynamic behavior of the size shape distribution could be studied. This enabled a detailed analysis of the solvent's effect on the change in crystal habit.

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PMCPMC6430499

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