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Spindle-Shaped Apatite La–Silicate Mesocrystals Grown via a Multistep Nucleation and Growth Mechanism, A New Strategy for Preparing Ordered Nanoscale Superstructures
A precise
control over the growth of mesocrystals composed of crystallographically
aligned nanocrystals is necessary to exploit their collective properties
for potential applications. Here, we describe a successful preparation
of spindle-shaped apatite La–silicate (ap-LSO) mesocrystals
with an ordered arrangement of elongated nanocrystals along <i>c</i>-axis through a solvothermal process, as revealed by X-ray
diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy–selected
area electron diffraction, and high-resolution transmission electron
microscopy. It has been shown that a multistep nucleation and growth
mechanism would be responsible for the formation of the mesocrystals.
This novel mesocrystal formation mechanism breaks through the classical
crystallization norm and opens a new way to constructing mesocrystals
with nanoscale superstructures