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Wulff shape of crystals

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Wulff shape of crystals. The shape of an equilibrium crystal is obtained, according to the Gibbs thermodynamic principle, by minimizing the total surface free energy associated to the crystal-medium interface. To study the solution to this problem, known as the Wulff construction, is the object of the article.

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hal-00967411 , version 1 (28-03-2014)

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Salvador Miracle-Solé. Wulff shape of crystals. Scholarpedia, 2013, 8 (10), pp.31266. ⟨10.4249/scholarpedia.31266⟩. ⟨hal-00967411⟩
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