Polymeric and non-polymeric materials often crystallize as spherulites when crystallized
from viscous melts or solutions at large undercooling. The essential component of a …

The interest in confined crystallization has greatly increased with the development and
progress of nanotechnology applications. Polymeric confined crystallization has been …

This is the first account of the history of our understanding of, and ability to model,
solidification microstructures. Its objective is to retrace the scientific steps made, from the …

This book gives a systematic overview on the scientific fundamentals of crystal growth from
the classical phenomenological description to the recent theoretical contributions of …

This paper reviews methods and applications of the phase field technique, one of the fastest
growing areas in computational materials science. The phase field method is used as a …

Recently, polymer crystallization in ultrathin films (thickness less than 100nm) on solid
substrates has attracted increased attention. As it can be considered to be a quasi-two …

Combined effects of the cooling rate, alloy composition, and crystal-melt (CM) interfacial
anisotropy on solidification of Al-Cu alloys are studied by integrating molecular dynamics …

We present a detailed experimental and numerical investigation of the directional-
solidification growth patterns in thin films of the CBr 4–8 mol% C 2 Cl 6 alloy, as a function of …

The crystal growth of isotactic polystyrene (it-PS) is investigated in very thin, 11nm thick
films. The it-PS crystals grown in the thin films show quite different morphology from that in …

The morphology diagram of possible structures in two-dimensional diffusional growth is
given in the parameter space of undercooling Δ versus anisotropy of surface tension ε. The …