Abstract
Many molecular crystals are comprised of centrosymmetric dimer motifs. In several cases, these are thought to grow by direct incorporation of dimerized units rather than from monomers. In this work, we model the effects of the dimerization kinetics in the boundary layer close to the crystal surface on the rate of crystal growth. We identify three dimensionless parameters that relate diffusivity through the boundary layer, dimerization kinetics, and dimer incorporation kinetics to estimate the extent to which dimerization kinetics impede the crystal growth from dimers.
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