Interfacial Phenomena and Crystallization
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2021) | Viewed by 6647
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nucleation and growth; confinement; droplets; porous media; interfacial phenomen
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Interfacial phenomena are involved in almost every crystallization event. Crystal nucleation occurs as a result of competition between surface energies that resists the formation of a new interface and the driving force that induces the phase transition and subsequent crystal growth. The presence of low energy surfaces can reduce the free energy barrier and thereby facilitate nucleation. Thus, the affinity of the new precipitating phase for forming either in the bulk or at an interface that may be present (solid or gas) can greatly change the nucleation process and can also be used to control the location of crystal nucleation, the crystal morphology and/or its polymorphs. This special issue on “interfacial phenomena and crystallization” aims at gathering novel experimental and theoretical research on nucleation and growth of inorganic crystals / minerals, ice and hydrates both in bulk and in confinement: in droplets, porous media or microfluidic systems. This special issue will assemble the latest advances in different interdisciplinary fields in relation with this topic such as the fundamentals of nucleation and growth; controlled polymorphism, biomineralization, crystallization in emulsions and gas hydrate formation.
Prof. Dr. Noushine Shahidzadeh
Professor Daniel Broseta
Dr. Wim Noorduin
Guest Editors
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