Seed crystals are tiny single crystals made to dissolve in a solution (or melt) from which larger crystals are drawn either by precipitation, centrifuging or drawing up from a melt. Seed crystals are ...

Ostwald's 1897 paper on crystal nucleation 1 contains an interesting remark in the introduction. After explaining that supercooled liquids can be made to crystallize by the introduction of a small ...

Chirality—often described as "handedness"—is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging ...

Crystals that don't experience mechanical stress during growth, will be of superior quality. Researchers are looking into the ability to levitate the liquid metal in a new study. Crystals that don't ...