Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35275793›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Particle-based hematite crystallization is invariant to initial particle morphology.

Yining Wang, Sichuang Xue, Qingyun Lin, Duo Song, Yang He, Lili Liu, Jianbin Zhou, Meirong Zong, James J De Yoreo, Junwu Zhu and 3 more

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Polyamines Promote Aragonite Nucleation and Generate Biomimetic Structures.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yining WangPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0002-4569-7783
Sichuang XuePhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.
Qingyun LinPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0003-4010-7630
Duo SongPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0002-5136-7959
Yang HePhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.
Lili LiuPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0002-9595-4303
Jianbin ZhouPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.
Meirong ZongPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.
James J De YoreoPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.
Junwu ZhuKey Laboratory for Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China.
Kevin M RossoPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0002-8474-7720
Maria L SushkoPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0002-7229-7072
Xin ZhangPhysical & Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354.ORCID 0000-0003-2000-858X
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · USNanjing University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SignificanceMany crystallization processes occurring in nature produce highly ordered hierarchical architectures. Their formation cannot be explained using classical models of monomer-by-monomer growth. One of the possible pathways involves crystallization through the attachment of oriented nanocrystals. Thus, it requires detailed understanding of the mechanism of particle dynamics that leads to their precise crystallographic alignment along specific faces. In this study, we discover a particle-morphology-independent oriented attachment mechanism for hematite nanocrystals. Independent of crystal morphology, particles always align along the [001] direction driven by aligning interactions between (001) faces and repulsive interactions between other pairs of hematite faces. These results highlight that strong face specificity along one crystallographic direction can render oriented attachment to be independent of initial particle morphology.

Indexed as

hematiteinterfacial forcenonclassical crystallizationoriented attachment (OA)particle-based crystallization

Identifiers

PMID35275793
PMCPMC8931245
OpenAlexW4221002531

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.