Simulation of Crystallization in Complex Atomic and Particulate Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Crystallization plays a key role in many industrial and engineering applications as well as in processes related to life itself. Thus, it is a well-studied phenomenon, but, significant aspects of its nucleation and growth are not fully understood especially at the level of atoms and molecules.

More than 60 years ago, the seminal simulation work of Alder and Wainwright demonstrated, for the first time, that under specific conditions the simplest molecular system, that of hard spheres, crystallizes. Over the last decades, significant advances in simulation algorithms, accompanied by ever-growing computer power, have allowed us to study crystallization and general phase transitions in a large variety of exceedingly complex systems in the bulk, under confinement, at interfaces or on surfaces.

The purpose of the present Special Issue is to host the most recent advances in the computer simulation of crystal nucleation and growth with the intention of highlighting the similarities and differences of the phenomenon as it spans highly diversified atomic and particulate systems. Accordingly, this Special Issue is open to simulation works crossing interdisciplinary fields and coming from different research backgrounds.

Given the focus on the simulation aspects of crystallization, this Special Issue also accepts manuscripts detailing developments in related algorithms and methodologies.

Prof. Dr. Nikos Ch. Karayiannis
Guest Editor

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