Seeds for Crystal Growth: Mechanism, Design, and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 175
Special Issue Editor
Interests: crystal growth phenomenon under high pressure and temperature conditions; multi-step crystallization; in situ observation technique; growth kinetics; thermodynamics; micro-pulling-down method
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We focus on the breakthrough in crystal growth science and engineering. The development of methodologies has unlocked the origin of elementary processes in crystallization, such as atomic alignment on crystal surfaces, nucleation, and step dynamics. The unconventional selection of materials such as inorganic/organic hybrid materials, colloidal systems, and proteins has also resulted in the discovery of the unexplored phenomena of crystallization, such as hierarchical structure, twisting, and self-assembly. Today, the innovation of crystal growth techniques has unveiled the practicality of a wide variety of industrial crystals for a variety of applications, such as nonlinear optical elements and surface-acoustic-wave elements, scintillation, and power devices in the market. Here, we invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue of Materials for possible seeds of new crystal growth. The themes include but are not limited to vapor growth, solution growth, and melt growth, and both experimental and simulation studies are welcome for submissions. The Special Issue intends to support all fields related to crystallization such as geology, biology, and chemical engineering. However, we would like the authors to demonstrate something unpredictable and/or unconventional in terms of approaches, discoveries, and techniques for the breakthrough of the crystal growth field. We anticipate compiling numerous papers.
Dr. Harutoshi Asakawa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- unpredictable crystal growth phenomenon
- new growth technique
- unconventional approaches
