Science and Technology of Crystal Growth

1. Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics.- 1.1 Thermodynamics and phase diagrams - fundamentals and tools for crystal growth.- 1.2 Atomic models for crystal growth.- 1.3 The syncrystallization of thianaphthene and naphthelene, an exercise in thermodynamic phase diagram analysis.- 1.4 From thermoelasticity to surface melting.- 2. Crystallization Concepts.- 2.1 Nucleation.- 2.2 Topics in crystal growth kinetics.- 2.3 Lattice growth models.- 2.4 Macroscopic transport processes during the growth of single crystals from the melt.- 3. Single Crystals and Epitaxy.- 3.1 Large-scale numerical modeling of the bulk crystal growth from the melt and solution.- 3.2 Vapour growth.- 3.3 Advanced epitaxial techniques for III-V materials.- 4. Crystal Shape.- 4.1 Morphology of crystals: past and future.- 4.2 Modulated and Quasicrystals.- 4.3 Modelling the habit modification of molecular crystals by the action of "tailor-made" additives.- 4.4 Morphological instability: dendrites, seaweed and fractals.- 5. Mass Crystallization.- 5.1 Mass crystallization, number balances and size dristributions.- 5.2 Crystallizers.- 5.3 Melt suspension crystallization.- 5.4 Melt layer crystallization.- 5.5 Secondary nucleation.- 6. Crystals Grown from Large Growth Units.- 6.1 Crystallization in colloidal suspensions.- 6.2 Polytypism and inorganic crystal growth and reactivity.- 6.3 Polymer crystallization.- 6.4 Principles of crystal growth in protein crystallization.- 7. Surface Structure.- 7.1 Some common pathologies in step growth: impurities and surface reconstruction.- 7.2 Characterization of crystal growth processes using synchrotron X-ray techniques.