Journal of Materials Science, Vol.31, No.5, 1151-1156, 1996
Morphology and Structure of Zncr2O4 Spinel Crystallites
Computer simulation techniques have been used to predict the crystal morphology of the spinel ZnCr2O4. In agreement with experiment, crystallites are predicted to be essentially octahedral with the {111} surface dominating the structure. However, surfaces for materials with the spinel structure are highly complex and stabilized only by the formation of surface defects. This leads to a large number of different possible surface structures.