Kinetic Processes of Crystal Growth
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 417
Special Issue Editor
Interests: precipitation kinetic and mechanism; crystallization; slightly soluble salts; precursors; calcium carbonates; vaterite; calcite; aragonite; calcium oxalates; biomineralization; industrial crystallization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Most of you are probably aware of the significant interest in studies of crystalline solid materials, which are related to different technological, pharmaceutical, geochemical, environmental, biological, and/or chemical systems. Indeed, revealing the mechanisms of fundamental processes of nucleation, crystal growth and aging, involved in the crystallization (precipitation) from solution, is of ultimate importance for understanding the structural, physical, chemical, and morphological properties of the respective materials. The analysis of the kinetics of the mentioned processes, which is dominantly affected by temperature, concentration of constituents, or impurities, is a powerful tool, complementary to typical structural or morphological investigations. Besides this classical crystallization pathway, which successfully explained the behavior of a number of simple systems, the non-classical models contributed to understanding the formation of solid phases in complex processes like biomineralization and the related role of amorphous precursors or nanoparticles.
The aim of this Special Issue, "Kinetic Processes of Crystal Growth", is to give an overview of the research of the kinetics of fundamental processes of precipitation, but also of the applied investigations of crystallization kinetics relevant in many different fields and model systems of different complexity. Indeed, the authors are encouraged to contribute papers detailing their experimental and theoretical results.
Dr. Damir Kralj
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Precipitation
- Crystal growth kinetic
- Crystal growth mechanism
- Nucleation
- Aging
- Non-classical crystallization
- Polymorphism
- Metastable solids
