Crystallization and Materials Science of Modern Artificial and Natural Crystals

Download or read book Crystallization and Materials Science of Modern Artificial and Natural Crystals written by Elena Borisenko and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal growth is an important process, which forms the basis for a wide variety of natural phenomena and engineering developments. This book provides a unique opportunity for a reader to gain knowledge about various aspects of crystal growth from advanced inorganic materials to inorganic/organic composites, it unravels some problems of molecular crystallizations and shows advances in growth of pharmaceutical crystals, it tells about biomineralization of mollusks and cryoprotection of living cells, it gives a chance to learn about statistics of chiral asymmetry in crystal structure.