Commment on "Secondary Nucleation by Interparticle Energies. I. Thermodynamics"

Abstract

We point out an inconsistency in the theoretical treatment of Bosetti and collaborators (Crystal Growth & Design, 2021, 22.1: 87-97), and then proceed to prove that for monomers interacting by two-body potentials, the presence of an infinite, flat, attractive crystal surface may not induce an increased propensity for cluster formation (that is, secondary nucleation) of the type envisioned by these authors.

6 typeset pages (achemso class), 1 double-panel figure, rejected by Crystal Growth \& Design