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The future will reveal an ever increasing demand for crystals having highly specific properties while, at the same time, crystal growth systems will come to be increasingly restricted by environmental and budgetary constraints. If the technology is based on trial and error and the science restricted to irrelevant model systems, these demands will come into conflict. But if technological developments incorporate scientific understanding, then environmental, financial, material and fundamental perspectives often turn out to run surprisingly parallel. It is this integration of approaches to which Science and Technology of Crystal Growth aspires. Starting from basic physical and chemical knowledge, the reader is encouraged to build to the state of the art level, assisted by the many thousands of references to the original literature. The aspects covered range from mass crystallization technology to numerical modeling, from biological materials to fundamental physics, and from chemical reaction dynamics to the nonlinear dynamics of pattern formation. Audience: An ideal starting point for postgraduate researchers and process engineers. A high-level, interdisciplinary approach to crystallization.
Table of Contents
Science and Technology of Crystal Growth: An Introduction; J. P. van der Eerden, O. S. L. Bruinsma. 1: Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics. 1.1. Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams - Fundamentals and Tools for Crystal Growth; G. Krabbes. 1.2. Atomic Models for Crystal Growth; J. P. van der Eerden. 1.3. The Syncrystallization of Thianaphthene and Naphthalene, an Exercise in Thermodynamic Phase Diagram Analysis; H. A. J. Oonk. 1.4. From Thermoelasticity to Surface Melting; T. H. M. van den Berg, J. P. van der Eerden. 2: Crystallization Concepts. 2.1. Nucleation; D. Kashchiev. 2.2. Topics in Crystal Growth Kinetics; A. A. Chernov, H. Komatsu. 2.3. Lattice Growth Models; J. I. D. Alexander. 2.4. Macroscopic Transport Processes during the Growth of Single Crystals from the Melt; J. J. Derby. 3: Single Crystals and Epitaxy. 3.1. Large-Scale Numerical Modeling of the Bulk Crystal Growth from the Melt and Solution; J. J. Derby, S. Kuppurao, Q. Xiao, A. Yeckel, Y. Zhou. 3.2. Vapour Growth; G. Krabbes. 3.3. Advanced Epitaxial Growth Techniques for III-V Materials; I. Moerman, P. Demeester. 4: Crystal Shape. 4.1. Morphology of Crystals: Past and Future; P. Bennema. 4.2. Modulated and Quasicrystals; H. Meekes. 4.3. Modelling the Habit Modification of Molecular Crystals by the Action of `Tailor-Made' Additives; G. Clydesdale, K. J. Roberts. 4.4. Morphological Instability: Dendrites, Seaweed and Fractals; K. Kassner. 5: Mass Crystallization. 5.1. Mass Crystallization, Number Balances and Size Distributions; J. Garside. 5.2. Crystallizers; G. Hofmann. 5.3. Melt Suspension Crystallization; M. Matsuoka. 5.4. Melt Layer Crystallization; J. Ulrich, J. Bierwirth. 5.5. Secondary Nucleation; G. M. van Rosmalen, A. E. van der Heyden. 6: Crystals Grown from Large Growth Units. 6.1. Crystallization in Colloidal Suspensions; J. S. van Duijneveldt, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker. 6.2. Polytopism and Inorganic Crystal Growth and Reactivity; A. Baronnet. 6.3. Polymer Crystallization; G. Goldbeck-Wood. 6.4. Principles of Crystal Growth in Protein Crystallization; A. A. Chernov, H. Komatsu. 7: Surface Structure. 7.1. Some Common Pathologies in Step Growth: Impurities and Surface Reconstruction; W. J. P. van Enckevort. 7.2. Characterization of Crystal Growth Processes Using Synchrotron X-Ray Techniques; K. J. Roberts. 7.3. Optical and Scanning Probe Microscopy; K. Tsukamoto. Subject Index.