Crystal Nucleation Kinetics

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past years there has been great progress toward the utilization of advanced (nano)technologies to prepare new generation materials with indispensable application potentials in our complex society.

In the processing of such tailored materials a variety of phase transitions (solidification, CVD, crystallization, condensation, etc.) play an essential role. The phase transformation scenarios are very similar. Due to sufficiently massive fluctuations, submicroscopic domains (clusters) of a new phase are formed within the metastable parent phase via nucleation. Advances in the understanding of the nucleation mechanisms allow us to influence the reordering processes of the initial structure resulting in a material with the required physico-chemical properties.

It seems to be important to collect research results in the field of nucleation in a compact, structured manner in order to extend the knowledge of basic research in materials science. Therefore, we invite researchers to submit their papers to the Special Issue of Crystals entitled “Crystal Nucleation Kinetics”. Manuscripts may address any aspects of this topic. Besides original articles, we also encourage the submission of review papers on the recent progress and future prospects of nucleation kinetics models. Potential topics for this Special Issue will include, but are not strictly limited, to the following:

• classical nucleation theory
• kinetic nucleation models
• nucleation in confined (small) systems
• non-isothermal nucleation kinetics
• nucleation kinetics in multicomponent systems
• nucleation on strongly curved or atomic rough surfaces
• nucleation processes in atmosphere
• nucleation of nanocrystalline diamonds
• nucleation in specific systems (e.g. pharmaceutical)

Prof. Pavel Demo
Guest Editor

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