liquid menthol. We observed that the two enantiomeric forms of menthol ((−)-menthol and (+)-
menthol)) form ring-banded spherulites, in which needle-like crystals self-assemble into high-
and low-density crystal regions. Interestingly, the racemic mixture produces nonbanded
spherulites consisting of closely packed plate-like crystals. In the ring-banded spherulitic
growth, we could clearly identify the curvature effect of the solidification front on the pattern …