Crystals grow in the mind's eye by the addition of small units to a monolith each part of which
is in fixed translational relation to every other part. Here, it is shown that growth can induce …

Spontaneous twisting of single crystals is a common growth induced deformation. But as
twisted crystals thicken they can untwist, restoring a straight form. The mechanics of this …

The growth of spontaneously twisted crystals is a common but poorly understood
phenomenon. An analysis of the formation of twisted crystals of a metastable benzamide …

Figure 1. Photograph of a typical crystal of I (approximately 0.5 cm along the longest edge).
On the right is a schematic diagram of the crystal showing Miller index assignments of the …

Crystals of a variety of substances including elements, minerals, simple salts, organic
molecular crystals, and high polymers forgo long‐range translational order by twisting and …

A strategy is outlined for the design of hand-twisted helical crystals. The starting point in the
exercise is the one-dimensional (1D) plastic crystal, 1, 4-dibromobenzene, which is then …

Twisted crystals are widely observed in natural minerals and artificial materials. However,
the formation mechanism for most of the helical morphologies is quite complicated and, thus …

This review article discusses a link between stereochemistry and structural and
morphological chirality. We present the remarkably frequent, but less often reported, growth …

The Ostwald rule of stages describes the conjectured transitioning through metastable
polymorphic crystal structures during crystallization. Direct observation of the Ostwald rule of …

Two books that describe the forms of thin films of many molecular crystals grown from the
melt in polarized light,“Gedrillte” Kristalle (1929) by Ferdinand Bernauer and …