This article summarizes the OA-based growth kinetics, especially the control over obtaining the pure OA mechanism under the strong surface adsorption and the progress of OA kinetic models. The effect of surface adsorption was demonstrated to impact more on the OR growth kinetics than on the OA growth process. The influence to the former can lead to thermodynamic prohibition, while to the latter, the adsorption/desorption only brings the kinetic limitation. It is interesting that the OA growth occurs by direct particle coalescence, regardless of the strong surface adsorption. Further exploration in this area will probably generate a general understanding of crystallization itself. The “molecular-like” OA growth models can provide the microscopic understanding of the OA growth process, taking the OA growth behaves as the collision and reaction between molecules. The proposed growth kinetics will be meaningful to the self-assembly strategies for materials including colloids , polymers, and even biologic species.